Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

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.

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.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

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.

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. 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.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.