Teaching in the Knowledge Society

I started reading a book for my doctoral program and am very excited about it.  (Click on title to go to book ordering site.) Here's the rundown of Chapter 1:

It's basically how we are now in a knowledge-based society, and education needs to change the way we educate students. 

Some tidbits that hit home with me:

"Nations and groups that do not or cannot participate in the informational society become increasingly marginalized by it." - pg. 18

"But schools and their teachers cannot and should not stand aside from their responsibilities to promote young people's opportunities in, engagements with, and inclusion within the high-skill world of knowledge, information, communication, and innovation." - pg. 21

"Subjecting them to more of the same does not change what students are achieving at." - pg. 21

"The regulations and routines of factories, monasteries, and self-perpetuating bureaucracies provide young people with poor preparation for a highly innovative, flexible, and team-based knowledge economy where rountine is the enemy of risk." - pg. 23

"Schools that are learning organizations for everyone build capacity to develop these essentials of collective intelligence." - pg. 27

"If we are to encourage students to be risk-takers, teachers must be risk-takers, too.  Teaching is not a place for shrinking violets, for the overly sensitive, for people who are more comfortable with dependent children than they are with independent adults. It is a job for grown-ups, requiring grown-up norms of how to work together." - pg. 28

Take it for what it's worth.  I think it's stellar.