Definition of Competence

Competence Quotations

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
William Glasser

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
William Glasser

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Ayrton Senna

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
John Cleese

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
Doug Coupland

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter