Book excerpt: Curriculum and Instruction Design for Humanizing Education in the 21st Century: Access to Success for All is a design handbook for those who seek to humanize education by turning it into an empowering system that secures success for all learners. It reflects on the past, present, and future of our current education system and outlines the role of outcome-based education in achieving humanization. It offers a pragmatic vision fitting to both basic and higher education, schools, and universities. It engenders a mission of inspiring and empowering learners in their individual efforts to shape and affirm their authentic selves, form and live creative, successful, and fulfilling futures through transformational OBE.