This video makes a compelling case for teaching 21st Century Learners to be what is described in the graphic above. What do you think?
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Our democracy is at stake if we don't act soon. Democracy Now
This was the part of the interview that relates to the urgency for 21st Century Learning to uphold our democracy. Bill Moyers as quoted in an interview on Democracy Now:

“Because what we’re talking about is nothing less than rescuing a democracy that is so polarized it is in danger of being paralyzed and pulverized.

Alarming words, I know. But the realities we face should trigger alarms. Free and responsible government by popular consent just can’t exist without an informed public. That’s a cliché, I know, but I agree with the presidential candidate who once said that truisms are true and clichés mean what they say (an observation that no doubt helped to lose him the election.) It’s a reality: democracy can’t exist without an informed public. Here’s an example: Only 13% of eligible young people cast ballots in the last presidential election. A recent National Youth Survey revealed that only half of the fifteen hundred young people polled believe that voting is important, and only 46% think they can make a difference in solving community problems. We’re talking here about one quarter of the electorate. The Carnegie Corporation conducted a youth challenge quiz of l5-24 year-olds and asked them, “Why don’t more young people vote or get involved?” Of the nearly two thousand respondents, the main answer was that they did not have enough information about issues and candidates. Let me rewind and say it again: democracy can’t exist without an informed public. So I say without qualification that it’s not simply the cause of journalism that’s at stake today, but the cause of American liberty itself. As Tom Paine put it, “The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.””
Link to Thomas Paine UShistory.org
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Wow! Check this video out about Progressive Education of 1940's...how similar is this to today? If we had not flip flopped over all these years in education...where would be be today? What does this say about the urgency of today? Is history repeating itself? How can we change this trajectory and make a difference?