If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether. - Alvin Toffler

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it. The acceleration of change in our time is, itself, an elemental force. This accelerative thrust has personal and psychological, as well as sociological, consequences.

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

…the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.