By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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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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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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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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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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