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We cannot improve or restructure a horse and buggy into a spacecraft regardless of how much money and effort we put into it.

— Béla H. Bánáthy Designing Social Systems in a Changing World (1996)

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The learner is the key entity and occupies the nucleus of the systems complex of education.

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Participation is empowering and design is empowered by it.

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It was appropriate to say up front that systems thinking is the parent of design thinking and systems inquiry embeds design inquiry.

Systems philosophy brings forth a reorganization of ways of thinking. It creates a new worldview, a new paradigm of perception and explanation, which is manifested in integration, holistic thinking, purpose-seeking, mutual causality, and process-focused inquiry.

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The degree to which they are a community is marked by the degree of effort they devote to attain their purpose, the degree of their commitment to it, and the degree of their commitment to each other.

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