We must create a “Council of the Future” in every school and community: Teams of men and women devoted to probing the future in the interests of the present By projecting “assumed futures,” by defining coherent educational responses to them, by opening these alternatives to active public debate, such councils—similar in some ways to the “prognostic cells” advocated by Robert Jungk of the Technische Hochschule in Berlin—could have a powerful impact on education.
