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Slides from the Keynote Address
by Prof. Dr. Renate Walthes

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Visions and Strategies
for the New Century

Prof. Dr. Renate Walthes

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Visio, n.
L. visionem, acc. of visio
pp. of vid�re, to see and cogn.
with OI. V�da, I know, v�dah, knowledge
something see in a dream
object of imagination

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Renate Walthes: Visions and Strategies for the New Century

Structure of the presentation

1. Future is the Land which belongs to Nobody
2. Significance of sight
3. Strategies

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Uncertainty of Future

Karl Valentin In previous times even the future was better.

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The right of each child to
wilfulness and an individual concept of time

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What you don't learn as a child, you'll never learn as an adult.

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We pave the way !

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GO COMPUSERVE. Pass through frontiers. Go to the end of the world.
Information und communication all around the globe. Go Online!

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�Hebold-Disc" - for representation of angles and geometric shapes
(Berlin, at about 1860)

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Of course, man knows what he really needs, but then again he hasn't the time.

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Hypothesis:

• The eye sees and by seeing it is capable of reflecting the world as it is.
• Individual forms of dealing with the world around is seldom admitted.
• The world of the people who see is an objective one.

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We are yesterdays students of today, being prepared in yesterday's schools by yesterday's teachers for problems of tomorrow.

 

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Developmental norms for visually and multiply handicapped children are not currently available, and the application of sighted norms to a visually handicapped population is neither fair nor appropriate.

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The future belongs to the �newthinkers"

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Visions and Strategies
for the New Century

Prof. Dr. Renate Walthes