Under the hegemony of production, educators were not a cohesive class and they proved unable to exert decisive, historic leadership. Circumstances have changed. In saying we have a better future to make, educators are saying that we now have the power to act on the level of historic leadership. Those, whose social roots leave them content to construct a consumer society, or an information society, encompass too few of the real powers that are now enabling construction of a global, knowledge society. Educators as an open, inclusive class, as the sum of all those acting as educators are the natural leaders in a knowledge society.
Educators create, communicate, and apply knowledge, values, and skills in the flux of life.
Educators knead ideas into experience. The emergent global habitat depends on the work of knowledge, the work of education. Once other social groups controlled education and harnessed its power of knowledge to purposes less than fully educational. Circumstances have changed. Knowledge that is educators we are power that is the emergent class challenged to carry the standard of historic leadership forward, to make a better future, to advance enlightenment, to forge strong bonds with the posterity of all.