By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
ALVIN TOFFLEROne of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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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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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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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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The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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