Learning for the XXIth century...

in what direction?

Roser Batlle

What changes are needed?

Talent education?

Creativity education?

Technological skills?

Learning to learn skills?

Competency education?

But...They were creative...

They had talent...

They had a good academical level...

They were good communicators...

They had reached a good level in the PISA evaluation...

But, if we live in a world like this...

What is the ultimate aim of learning?

Improving the individual curriculum

and competences?Promoting empathy

and generosity to improve the world?

We must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather we must work to reconnect education to humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world

Martha Nussbaum

The traditional assumption that "knowledge is power", and is used for personal gain is being subsumed by the notion that knowledge is an expression of the shared responsibilities for the collective wellbeing of humanity and the planet as a whole.

Jeremy Rifkin

The secret of success in democratic societies consist of competing with oneself (...) And so, not only benefit oneself but also those with which we live (...) We can not build a just society with mediocre citizens.

Adela Cortina

The ultimate aim of education is to train competent citizens capable of

transforming the world

individual

creativity

learning

self-esteem

talent

local

community

generosity

service

empathy

critical thinking

global

In order to do this, we need both:

And to do it, we need each other:

Slippery Slope

If we focus only or mainly on the lack of technical and economical skills... we may forget the human values education which can guide these skills.

If we think that disruptive innovations come only from extreme environments... we may forget the participation of teachers.

If we are too concern with the fastest way to promote changes... we may forget that in education, changes are always slow.

We must recover from the "Declaration of Geneva" of 1923, a powerful and luminous principle that remained incomprenhensibly

buried in the current Convention on the Rights of the Child:

The child must be brought up in the consciuosness that its talents must be devoted to the service of the

people

A final claim:

If not, what is

the education

for?

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