{"id":699,"date":"2013-09-09T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2013-09-08T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T23:19:03","slug":"hoffer-on-change-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/hoffer-on-change-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffer on Change & Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition<\/i>, \u00a732<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. \u2014 Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition, \u00a732<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-quotes","tag-education","post_format-post-format-aside","wpautop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sddF-bh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1228,"url":"https:\/\/www.jsylvest.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/art-in-space\/","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":0},"title":"Art in Space","author":"jsylvest","date":"22 April 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I'm going to put on my Tyler Cowen hat and speculate about what art work will be valuable when humans are space-faring. 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