Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track

Preface: Why, and How, This Book Was Written

When we first met at a conference devoted to learning in the twenty-first century, we were delighted to find ourselves deeply in sympathy with each other’s approach to education. We had each spent long years with people of all ages and in a variety of different environments—schools, universities, businesses (large and small), nonprofit organizations—espousing views that were for the most part considered radical and unrealistic. We had each endeavored to turn our dreams into reality, and we had each enjoyed enough support and success to encourage us to carry on.

But we had never crossed paths, either directly or indirectly. We soon discovered our common interests, our shared goals, and the widely divergent ...