Excerpt
from a letter addressed to the
Brentwood
Board of Education
from
Alvin Toffler
New York City,
May 19, 1975
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| “It
is almost cliché to say that we live in a world of very rapid change.
Our families are changing, our jobs, our country, the world, our value
systems, the nature of work and methods, our communities. All these
are known to be in rapid change. In order to survive we need new
ways to adapt. We need to learn to live with change and to master
it. In order to do this I think we are going to have to develop new
models of living and learning. |
| "I
didn’t know of the existence of the Maslow-Toffler School until after it
was born. I have spoken and met with students and with staff.
I read the poems they’ve written, I listened to the tapes they produced,
I talked with other people who visited the school. I’m convinced
that the Maslow-Toffler School represents a model of the future as far
as education is concerned; one model of the many that we are going to need,
the school from which I think educators can learn as well as the students
and the staff itself. I think we are going to see analogues of the
school, or models of it, spring up in other parts of the country before
long. I think the people of Brentwood are lucky to have this school
and I’m unlucky that it took so long to get going -- as I regret that my
own daughter did not have the opportunity to go to a school like this one.” |
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| (The
photo of Mr. Toffler was taken in 1975 by Frank Zimmerman, then a
student, during a visit to the New York City apartment of Alvin Toffler
by Maslow-Toffler students and staff. Click
here for more of Frank's beautiful
photographs.) |
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