Each summer Saint David's faculty are asked to read and reflect upon a book that explores one of the themes being developed at the school. Recently, Gardner's Five Minds for the Future and Hallowell's Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness , and David Perkins' Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds have served as summer reads. This summer's reading assignment was not a book; instead “summer reading” was a “summer watching.” The assignment aimed to explore one of our ongoing curricular sub themes: “Education for a New Era.” For the past several years at Saint David's , as one component of our major Curriculum Initiative , we have been critically examining potential implications of the changing socio-economic-cultural landscape at the dawn of this new century. What may need to change within our curriculum to meet the demands of a new era? What should not? have been two of our essential questions. Ken Robinson is an internationally known sp