Publication Date
7-1-1981
Abstract
The term flexibility is difficult to define. A person's definition of flexibility, like many other concepts, depends on a particular orientation or perspective of the world. If flexibility means adapting to change, then most people are flexible in some way. Through science we have developed technology, and our technology forces us to be flexible. About 97% of all the scientists who have ever lived are alive now, and they produce many changes (Toynbee, 1971). Our knowledge of the world is expanding at an incredible speed. Fourteen years ago George Arnstein said our scientific knowledge doubles approximately every eight years (Arnstein, 1966). Today knowledge is sought at accelerated rates through structured, complex, interrelated systems.
Recommended Citation
Thompson, M. E. (1981). Flexibility: A Key Element for Reading and Study Skills Specialists. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 21 (4). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol21/iss4/5
