Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | There have been several recent reports on the future condition of the planet, including the impending water crisis in which the lack of drinkable water may well be an issue confronting the entire world in the next generation. Yet many of the basic issues of the kind of world our young learners will have adapt to are either avoided or completely ignored in the present focus on educational "reform." It seems to me that "magical thinking" dominates the words of the easy promisers who present the "American Dream" of the future as if it were a reality today. |