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.
Source: Reflections on the Human Condition, aph. 32, 1973.
-- Eric Hoffer, (Jul 25 1902-1983), US writer, philosopher, longshoreman; His writings on life, power, and social order brought him celebrity and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1983.