Abstract
Education and training are considered to be linear, calm, progressive courses of acquiring skills and knowledge in an orderly and predictable manner. New insights from the science of chaos about how the universe really works have an impact on the way we view education, learning, and the functioning of the human brain itself. Concepts such as ambiguity, punctuated equilibrium, sensitive dependence on initial conditions, and multiple right answers arising from these new sciences have implications not only for education, but specifically for sexuality education and for the professional and personal understanding that educators bring to their learning environments. These implications will challenge our very core understanding of educational process. Chaos theory connected to education can be confusing, confounding, unsettling, disturbing, and messy. It can also be energetic, intriguing and fascinating. It will invite us to teach in very different ways than were developed during the era of Newtonian science and mechanistic assumptions.