Myron Tribus Quotes

• If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.

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  People, Goal, Effort

  "Quality First: Selected Papers on Quality & Productivity Improvement". Book by Myron Tribus, Washington, D.C.: National Society of Professional Engineers (#1459), 1992.

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• You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.

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  Manage

  "You Cannot Lead What You Do Not Understand - You Do Not Understand What You Haven't Done". Journal of Innovative Management, Fall 1996.

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• David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and
  learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I
  taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It
  was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to
  whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.'

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  Education, Dog, Teaching

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• When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.

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  Teacher, Past, Bored

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• Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

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  Knowledge, Use, Academic

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• The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

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  Engineering, Design, Process

  Myron Tribus (2016). “Rational Descriptions, Decisions and Designs: Pergamon Unified Engineering Series”, p.15, Elsevier

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• Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

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  Teaching, Learning, Joy

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