Will our educational system be the solution or the problem?

In the last 50 years, there have been two important developments which provide a potential to improve education in ways not heretofore believed possible. These developments are: 1. Feuerstein's Theory of Cognitive Modifiability and 2. Quality Management. Together, these developments may be used to improve how people help all students, of all ages, to learn and create systems for learning that improve performance and reduce cost. These two developments are reviewed and, using that knowledge as a background, the things that are wrong with current approaches to education and how to develop a strategy to correct them are discussed.