The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
Peter DruckerRead
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Interpretation
Knowledge needs continual growth and challenge to remain relevant and effective.
This quote emphasizes the importance of actively engaging with knowledge to prevent it from becoming stagnant. Peter Drucker suggests that without effort to improve and challenge our understanding, knowledge can fade away, highlighting the necessity for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.
In practice
In a conference about lifelong learning, this quote can underscore the necessity to adapt and evolve.
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
The basic economic resource - the means of production -_x000D_ _x000D_ is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor._x000D_ _x000D_ It is and will be knowledge.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.
To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children.
My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.
Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
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