There is no more important task than transforming education by design

For education we are already in the next century. Whatever we offer in our schools today will define the creative capacity, the competence, and the character of the generation which will shape the society of the 21st century. But many of us share a realization that today's schools are far from being able to do justice to the education of future generations. There is a growing awareness that our current design of education is out-of-sync with the new realities of the information/knowledge era. Those who are willing to face these new realities understand that: Rather thanextend education we shouldtranscend it; rather thanrevising it, we shouldre-vision it; and rather thenre-forming it, we shouldtrans-form it by design.