This paper discusses some predictive problems, trends, and dilemmas regarding education for the 21st century, and asks what the future will demand of humankind. Such topics as the information explosion, the increasingly important learning needs in a changing world, and technology versus humanity are examined. Discussion focuses on the implications for ethics, decision making, and responsibility for sports participation in relation to the aforementioned predicted problems and trends. Such topics as the underlying motivational dimensions of sport, play as a need for competence, the importance of self-concept, psychological hedonism, the need for achievement, aggression and violence in sport, and responisibility and sport--focusing on the "larger picture"--are discussed. (JD)