Education will become the center of the knowledge society, and schooling its key institution.

Throughout history, the craftsman who had learned a trade after five or seven years of apprenticeship had learned, by age eighteen or nineteen, everything he would ever need to use during his lifetime. Today the new jobs require a good deal of formal education and the ability to acquire and apply theoretical and analytical knowledge. They require a different approach to work and a different mind-set. Above all they require a habit of continuous learning.

What mix of knowledges is required for everybody? What is “quality” in learning and teaching? All these will, of necessity, become central concerns of ...

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