Quotes About Adaptation

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.

Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be.

My life, like yours, is a constant process of improvisation between my interests and personality on the one hand and circumstances and opportunities on the other.

Many of the jobs that current systems of education were designed for are fast disappearing.

You can think of creativity as a conversation between what we're trying to figure out and the media we are using.

If the world were to turn upside down tomorrow, they'd figure out a way to evolve their talents to accommodate these changes.

What if, freed from the what-has-always-beens that hold some schools back, and from the standardized testing that has paralyzed our nation's discourse and practice, a school launches the inventors, artists, and change makers who will act boldly and courageously in the face of a changing world?

La tercera limitación está en nuestra escasa comprensión del potencial que tenemos para crecer y cambiar.

tienes que hacer?». La chica contestaba: «Tengo que buscar el mínimo común denominador». El padre preguntaba: «¿Todavía lo están buscando? Ya estaban haciéndolo cuando yo iba al colegio». Sé cómo se sentía. Sin

Human lives are organic and cyclical. Different capacities express themselves in

We build our own cultures not only on the achievements of those that have come before but on their ruins.

Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2070. No one has any idea of what the world will look like in ten years' time, let alone in 2070. There are two major drivers of change—technology and demography.

The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the future is by improving what they did in the past. There are three major processes in education: the curriculum, which is what the school system expects students to learn; pedagogy, the process by which the system helps students to do it; and assessment, the process of judging how well they are doing.

To meet them, we need a radical change in how we think about and do school—a shift from the old industrial model to one based on entirely different principles and practices. People do not come in standard sizes or shapes, nor do their abilities and personalities. Understanding this basic truth is the key to seeing how the system is failing—and also how it can be transformed. To do that we have to change the story: we need a better metaphor.

U ovih 6 mjeseci odkako je u Indiji svaki put kad vidi lj bi?a da služe kao tegle?a gotovo kao sami nosa?i gkao da smatraju da je to posao kao i svaki drugi, a Amir ju je upozorio da bi suvišna obazrivost dovela jedino do toga da ostanu bez hljeba. Napola uvjerena pomirila se sa tim pokušavaju?i osmjesima i nagradama da ublaži svoj osje?aj krivice.

I remember a biology lab in which we observed a spear-headed water worm. Like a starfish, it could grow back anything we razored off of it, even to the point of generating multiple versions of itself. I saw myself in that gliding shape. Arrow-shaped, it never arrived where it wanted to go. But it knew, when cut, to grow.

There's no such thing in this world as absolute certainty. So accept that and go forward acting toward the best outcome no matter what.

Sometimes we have to unlearn things before we can learn the right things.

The beauty of the Internet is that people can take things, and do what they want with them, to project what they want or feel.

we do not know how to survive without other people to care for us and to teach us. Therefore, humans must discover ways of effectively interacting both with their environment and with each other. They must learn how to construct the knowledge, including rules of living, that will enable them to survive. This knowledge, the manner in which it is presented (in the family, in the neighborhood, in literature, art, school lessons, etc.), and the meaning it has for us is called culture.

This presentation is dealing the question of the modern relevance of God's Law today. What I propose to do is defended the notion of the applicability of God's Law; when the law is properly interpreted according to its Old Testament setting, and adapted to new covenantal conditions. -Theological Bootcamp II, The Intention of God's Law

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.