A Quote by Alvin Toffler

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

Alvin Toffler

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Alvin Toffler
American - Author
October 4, 1928 - June 27, 2016

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

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David Lynch

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