A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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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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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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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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