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 TOFFLERYou 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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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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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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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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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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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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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Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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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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