You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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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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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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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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By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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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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