We are about to complete a century and a millennium. Our old world is coming to an end and a new world is about to appear on the horizon. He also states, We do not have a single human institution that works well enough to take us into the next century. A design for a new society requires a new design for education.
Education is the gateway to total societal redesign.
It is the way out of despair, poverty, crime, welfare, homelessness and poor health. At the dawn of the 21st century, numerous forces are converging to connect people, ideas and information as never before. More importantly, people can use and access these mediums from nearly any physical location. Just as business must retool and retrain to become competitive, the schools and teachers that supply America's business with workers and the colleges and universities that supply America's schools must do the same. To lead the way in preparing 21st century educators and transforming 20th century teaching institutions into 21st learning organizations, the College of Education at Western Michigan University is engaged in the process of restructuring and redesigning its programs.