Joichi Ito

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“Children should—and do, intuitively—want to learn. It’s up to us, the blundering, wrongheaded adults, to frame the lessons correctly.”

― Joichi Ito

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“Creating in the moment: build quickly and improve constantly, without waiting for permission or for proof that you have the right idea.”

― Joi Ito

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“Are you ready for brain implants? Wait, don’t answer. Change doesn’t care if you’re ready. Change outpaced humans sometime late in the last century.”

― Joichi Ito

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"The paradox is that at the same time we've developed machines that behave more and more like humans, we've developed educational systems that push children to think like computers and behave like robots."

—Joichi Ito

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“Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do for yourself”

—Joichi Ito

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“If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.”

― Joichi Ito

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“Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.”

― Joichi Ito

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“In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.”

― Joichi Ito

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“The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.”

― Joichi Ito

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“There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.”

― Joichi Ito

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“I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.”

― Joichi Ito

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“When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.”

― Joichi Ito

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“Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.”

― Joichi Ito

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“Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.”

― Joichi Ito

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“Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.”

― Joichi Ito