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.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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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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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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