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"The one possibly most significant [change] from the point of view of education is the incredible increase in the number of facts that must be part of the mental furniture of any one who meets even the ordinary situations of life successfully. They are so many that any attempt to teach them all from text-books in school hours would be simply ridiculous. But the schools instead of facing this frankly and then changing their curriculum so that they could teach pupils how to learn from the world itself, have gone on bravely teaching as many facts as possible."

Dewy, J. & Dewey, E. (1915). Schools of To-morrow. New York, NY: Dutton.

"...schools as we know them today will have no place in the future. But it is an open question whether they will adapt by transforming themselves into something new or wither away and be replaced." (Papert, 1980 p.9)

Papert, S. (1980). Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas. New York: Basic Books.