When learning is in focus, arrangements are made in the environment of the learner that communicate the learning task, and learning resources are mad… - Béla H. Bánáthy

We cannot improve or restructure a horse and buggy into a spacecraft regardless of how much money and effort we put into it.

Systems philosophy brings forth a reorganization of ways of thinking. It creates a new worldview, a new paradigm of perception and explanation, which is manifested in integration, holistic thinking, purpose-seeking, mutual causality, and process-focused inquiry.

Talcott Parsons, the "incurable theorist" in his own words,... brought together, in a systematic and generalized form, the main outlines of a conceptual scheme of social action and systems (e.g. 1951). His frame of reference focused on the description of the system of institutionalized roles, motivational process, economic exchange, political power and other Issues that according to his view should be included in a general sociological theory.