George Leonard wrote The Education and Ecstasy in 1968 it was such a vision for the future 2001.(I guess we missed it a bit) He reminds me of the possibilities we've forgotten. I'm going to get it out and bring many of his ideas out again. They got lost somewhere. for example

The Free learner
The total learning environment
That learning is essential to living organisms - ecstasy occurs
We cannot guess what the distant future will ask of its schools, but can sense far enough into the future to see what our children already need.
Schools are for What? he asks
To learn the commonly-agreed upon skills and knowledge reading, writing, figuring history etc. to learn facts joyfully but to remember facts are strictly tentative.
To learn how to ring creative changes on all that is currently agreed upon.
To learn delight, not aggression; sharing, now eager acquisition; uniqueness, not narrow competition.
To learn heightened awareness and control of emotional, sensory and bodily states and, through this, increased empathy for other people (a new kind of citizenship education.
To learn how to enter and enjoy varying states of consciousness, in preparation fro a life of change
To learn how to explore and enjoy the infinite possibilities in relations between people, perhaps the most common form of ecstasy.
To learn how to learn, for learning one word that includes singing, dancing, interacting and much more, it already becoming the main purpose of life.