Education
Is the educational
system headed into the 21st century with a rearview focus, oriented toward the past? Or is it¹s focus
oriented toward the future, toward change?
The Need for Vision:
This calls for a need of vision, because as a wise man reminded us long ago, "without vision a people
perish" (Proverbs 29:18). But what is vision? Vision is the bifocal ability to see what lies ahead
(farsightedness), as well as the various impediments in the present (nearsightedness), and how to avoid
them in order to arrive at the future. Seldom are both types of vision found in the same individual. Yet
that is precisely what organizations need, a leadership and a staff that are bifocal. More often than not,
much of the conflict that arises within systems comes when the farsighted and the nearsighted are not
able to see the other's perspective. Yet both are needed for the one helps to put the other into
perspective