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.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system – without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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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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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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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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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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