Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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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 computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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