Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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