Working toward the creation of a truly equitable human society demands that school administrators (1) become aware of ways in which educational systems currently collaborate in maintaining inequitable societies and (2) work to change the structures that serve the status quo into structures that support cooperative change. One major task is to reeducate schools, teachers, and the larger society to shift their focus from "schooling" to "education." Schooling (the coercive and controlling structures that produce obedience) disempowers; it focuses on what teachers can make students do. Education, on the other hand (informing, inspiring, encouraging questions) empowers; it focuses on what students are enabled by teachers to do. Another task is to redefine "excellence" in education: to change from a failure-oriented system to a success-oriented system; to focus on a student's all-round humanity and the ability to go on learning, rather than on a limited range of skills; and to shift from summative to formative systems of evaluation. Nine specific suggestions to administrators range from curricula reform and the implementation of antiracist and antisexist policy guidelines to the invention of new, necessary words. A select bibliography is included and a paper detailing specific stategies for change is appended. (IW)