The five minds for the future: cultivating and integrating new ways of thinking to empower the education enterprise.
School Administrator › Vol. 66 Nbr. 2, February 2009
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The five minds for the future: cultivating and integrating new ways of thinking to empower the education enterprise.
At the start of the third millennium, we are well-attuned to considerations of the future. In citing the future, I refer to trends whose existence is widely acknowledged: the increasing power of science and technology; the interconnectedness of the world in economic, cultural and social terms; and the incessant circulation and intermingling of human beings of diverse backgrounds and aspirations.
As one who has witnessed discussions of the future all over the world, I can attest that belief in the power of education, for good or for ill, is omnipresent. We have little difficulty in seeing education as an enterprise--indeed the enterprise--for shaping the mind of the future. What kind of minds should we be cultivating for the future? Five types stand out as particularly urgent. One by one, let me bring them onto center stage. THE DISCIPLINED MIND In English, the word "discipline" has two distinct connotations. First, we speak of...See the full content of this document
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