Abstract

We are now at a crossroads for the world created by the Coronavirus Pandemic. This essay is meant to help us understand the present dilemma we are in, and the New World we may be entering, by revisiting the roots and routes of some of the great transformative educators of the twentieth century, those giants whose shoulders we stand on as we face the terrifying uncertainty of the Pandemic. The value of cosmopolitan thinking is that it sees both global obligations and the celebration of local differences as important. Embracing a critical cosmopolitanism and moving border thinking from the margins to the center will enable and empower all of us to imagine a new future together.