Alvin Toffler Quotes

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

Schools were not just places to learn. They were epicenters of social revolution.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will do well.

Education is at a turning point

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

The French higher education system has not adapted to this revolutionary period. [It] rewards people for their capacity to follow the path that is open to them. It does not encourage people to rebel or to develop their character.

… evolution over revolution.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

Incremental change does not change lives.

There is a revolution in Germany, and we must ask ourselves, "Is there a revolution in the university?" No. The fighting is still in the skirmishing stage.

There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.