Despite their best efforts

The Disney movie Tomorrowland has many meritable qualities to it.  Among them is the message about the resistance people have to what is coming in the next stage of civilization.  Change itself morphs rather naturally, so to glimpse something in the future without the benefit of the morphing transition is to glimpse something rather jolting and abrupt.

The clip represents this abruptness so well.  The main female character gets a glimpse of the future, but people try to keep her from getting to the world she has glimpsed.  Fortunately, in the movie she makes it despite the best efforts of people in the present to keep her from making it to the future.

There is a great message here for those in the field of education from the bottom to the top - from kindergarten to doctoral programs: glimpse the future and try with every fiber of energy to overcome the forces that would keep you from bringing the world of tomorrow to the world of today.  Most educators are much too like the robots who come to thwart the ones who are chosen to lead the way out of the present.  The forces are strong against morphing.  My hope and work is to help develop and help others to develop the way to get from today to tomorrow - that is George Clooney's character.

Tomorrowland is a great allegory for the truth of morphing from status quo to a better way of life in the vein of Plato's allegory, The Cave.  I stand with Plato and Disney.  We're way behind schedule. It's time to morph.