No major social problem can be solved in a lasting and constructive way, or constructive social change achieved, without the involvement of education. Education is a necessary, though rarely a sufficient partner. Unfortunately, education, all too often, does not take up the challenge. As a 63-year-old educator who has spent the last fourteen years as President of Hampshire College, my answer to the question has to be as much about the past as the future. My goal has been and continues to be to try to make education in the United States more accessible to all citizens, more effective and transforming for each individual, and a more authentic force for constructive social change. Or, put more succinctly and to quote Hampshire College's motto "non satis scire", "to know is not enough". We must act and create constructive social change.