Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

CHAPTER TWENTY

Quality Education

The New Growth Area

THAT AMERICA’S SCHOOLS WILL IMPROVE—radically and quite soon—is certain.

How fast they will improve we don’t yet know, though it may be faster than anyone expects. Nor is it at all clear how the changes will come about. But the economic rewards for knowledge and skill, after a half century of steady decline, are going up sharply—and so are the penalties for their absence.

It is generally believed that in this century jobs have become more demanding. But this holds true only for a minority of jobs, and, in general, only for jobs that have always had high knowledge requirements, such as physician ...