What Really Counts by Ronald Colman

Author:Ronald Colman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BUS069030, Business & Economics/Economics/Theory, BUS039000, Business & Economics/Economics/Macroeconomics
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2021-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

WHAT IS AN “EDUCATED POPULACE”?

Respected educators had already broadened the view of educational attainment far beyond existing conventional norms and measures. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), for example, had declared,

The goal of education is to make people wiser, more knowledgeable, better informed, ethical, responsible, critical and capable of continuing to learn. Education also serves society by providing a critical reflection on the world, especially its failings and injustices, and by promoting greater consciousness and awareness, exploring new visions and concepts, and inventing new techniques and tools.

Education is also the means for disseminating knowledge and developing skills, for bringing about desired changes in behaviors, values and lifestyles, and for promoting public support for the continuing and fundamental changes that will be required if humanity is to alter its course, leaving the familiar path that is leading towards growing difficulties, and starting the uphill climb towards sustainability. Education, in short, is humanity’s best hope and most effective means to the quest to achieve sustainable development.12

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