Quotes+to+consider

"We are entering a new age. It is an age animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life -- one that prizes aptitudes that I call 'high concept' and 'high touch'. High concept involves the capacity to detect patterns and opportunities, to create artistic and emotional beauty, to craft a satisfying narrative, and to combine seemingly unrelated ideas into something new. High touch involves the ability to empathize with others, to understand the subtleties of human interaction, to find joy in ones's self and to elicit it in others, and to stretch beyond the quotidian in pursuit of purpose and meaning." (Pink, Daniel C. //A Whole New Mind//, p.2)

Some of my favorites: "The primary task of the educational system must be to give learners the right tools and provide them with a critical mind, so that they can ask the right questions and make the right connections. The world has changed and continues to change." Ian Jukes

Thomas Friedman notes in __The World is Flat__ that "Today we are preparing students for jobs that don’t exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, to solve problems we haven’t begun to think about. As a result, the definition of what it means to be educated in the light of the modern world has changed and continues to change."

====In his book __The Third Wave__ futurist Alvin Toffler noted that, "the illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”====

In light of these thoughts, no wonder we often feel our mission is a daunting one... (Sue HH)