One 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.
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.
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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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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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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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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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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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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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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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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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