Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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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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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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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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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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