Technical Abstract: Plant breeding is critical to the future of productive agriculture, food security, and economic prosperity. Increasingly, many plant breeders are working in industry or governmental agencies that do not include education of the next generation of plant breeders as part of their mission. At the same time, many educational institutions lack resources and programs of sufficient size and scope to adequately educate/expose students to applied plant breeding. Furthermore the technology of plant breeding is changing, so established plant breeders need ongoing opportunities to develop new skills to take advantage of the new tools such as genomics. Two key questions facing our science are: 1. Do we have the capacity to educate the numbers of plant breeders that will be needed in the future? Do we have the approaches to continue to educate modern plant breeders in these changing times? Globally, in many developed and developing countries, it appears that the answer to both questions is “no”. However, both questions are being asked by so many companies, non-governmental organizations, governmental agencies, and universities that we can reasonably predict that a consensus on the need and challenges for plant breeding education is forming with the expectation that the capacity and approaches will be developed. Just as the science of plant breeding is rapidly changing, so should be educational approaches to educating plant breeders. The diversity of approaches will include internships at major companies and international centers, the establishment of virtual and single location educational centers, systematic life-long learning, and a much more fluid workforce that moves globally and from private to public sector positions seamlessly. The education will necessarily be broad since it must prepare students for positions that simply do not occur today.