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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.

— Béla H. Bánáthy Systems Design of Education (1991)

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

Systems Design of Education (1991)

Participation is empowering and design is empowered by it.

Systems Design of Education (1991)

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

Designing Social Systems in a Changing World (1996)

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

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.

Designing Social Systems in a Changing World (1996)

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