ABSTRACT
Educators are a conscientious, caring group of professionals. With very few exceptions, their dedication and efforts are exemplary. As teaching and learning are steadily directed away from passion by well-meaning policy makers, however, teachers are confused and frustrated. Educators today are deeply divided about the heart of our system. We live in a time of major conflict in which many embrace an emerging way of seeing the world while others among us defend the traditions of how school used to be. The authors have struggled personally and professionally with what to call these two philosophies of learning and being. We conclude that the difference is foundational.
