By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
ALVIN TOFFLERBy instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
ALVIN TOFFLERKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
ALVIN TOFFLERHumanity 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.
ALVIN TOFFLEROur technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
ALVIN TOFFLERMany 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
ALVIN TOFFLERMuch 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 TOFFLERChange is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
ALVIN TOFFLERFreedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
ALVIN TOFFLERMan has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
ALVIN TOFFLERTo survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe 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.
ALVIN TOFFLERYou’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
ALVIN TOFFLERIf industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
ALVIN TOFFLERYou can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
ALVIN TOFFLERThe future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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