We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.' Alvin Toffler More Quotes by Alvin Toffler More Quotes From Alvin Toffler The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler changepositiveinspirational Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition. Alvin Toffler futuredestinyresponsibility By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.' Alvin Toffler powerfulmenmoving 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. Alvin Toffler dataemotionalrunning If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. Alvin Toffler compelledendurechange 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. Alvin Toffler encouraginginspiringinspirational The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile. Alvin Toffler imaginationrunningpeople The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success. Alvin Toffler survivalyesterdayfirsts Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. Alvin Toffler stresschangetime If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. Alvin Toffler ecommercestrategytechnology One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. Alvin Toffler societyangerreal 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. Alvin Toffler difficultproducersprocess 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. Alvin Toffler responsibilityteachinglying 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. Alvin Toffler illiterate-personteachingeducation A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. Alvin Toffler tryingmencivilization It is always easier to talk about change than to make it. Alvin Toffler easierchangemanagement Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor. Alvin Toffler substitutesinformationspace Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Alvin Toffler hazardsprogresstechnology 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 Toffler thought-provokingdatawisdom Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out. Alvin Toffler knowingreadingknowledge
