Peter Drucker Quotes
Tomorrow everybody--or practically everybody--will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday.
Peter Drucker, Management Expert, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World, 1959
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Some find interest in the fact that Adams did not see education as raising the lower classes to be equal to that of the upper class. He chose the word “nearer.”
Black and Hispanic student performance on educational achievement tests were much lower than that of whites. There were many who believed that this gap was responsible for most of the other ethnic differences that made for ethnic and racial inequality. Ironically, it was Romney’s party in Congress that opposed more funding for education and generally was opposed to federal efforts to improve and monitor civil rights. However, Romney was talking to a mostly Hispanic audience and took a position that was seemingly contradictory to his Party’s Platform and the actions of the then Republican Controlled House of Representatives.
There are two things that make this quotation interesting, First it tells us about the educational gender discrimination in early Massachusetts. But not his phrase “light soon broke in”. He obviously saw the lack of education for girls as undesirable and unenlightened. But the fact that he had this attitude and would express is so readily in 1857 tells us that, at least in the Northeast girls’ education was assumed by many as part of civilized society.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management".
