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 TOFFLERThere 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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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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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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Humanity 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.
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Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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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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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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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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The 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.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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