Education 2000 A.D.

Abstract

In this article the author uses a mixture of historical evidence, extrapolation from present trends, and fantasies about the future to make some projections about the human condition in the year 2000. He then deduces what implications these projections bear for educational practice during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Some of the areas he touches upon in his analysis are the spread of affluence, developments in cybernation, the challenges of an information-rich society, changes in authority relationships, sex-role differences, skin-color differences, changes in space-consciousness, changes in time-orientation, population growth, the problems of violence, the use and abuse of drugs, ecological consciousness, the nurture of creativity and aesthetic sensitivity, and changes in religion.