Tomorrow everybody--or practically everybody--will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man. -- Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959)

We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as …

...throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive. ...our word 'school'--and its equivalent in all European languages--derives from a Greek word m…

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is p…

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society.

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.