TO ATTAIN EDUCATION FOR ALL: ROLE TECHNOLOGY CAN PLAY

摘要

The tide today is running to democracy, which of its very nature requires an ever more educated citizenry involved in the goals and governance of each nation or region. There is a vital desire and movement among all peoples for realizing the personal dignity of each human being, a surge of rising expectations for human development and human freedom everywhere in the world. Human rights are the order of the day, and among the most important of modern human rights is educational opportunity, without which human development and human freedom are impossible. These are the motives and dreams that are driving us today toward what has often seemed an impossible dream: global educational opportunities for every human being on earth. Let me say here that the dream is impossible if education is visualized as it has existed in recent centuries: a schoolroom with a teacher and students. . . .It should be fairly obvious at this point that we need a completely new plan and vision for worldwide access to education at all levels, if this century is to see a quantum leap in educational opportunities everywhere (Hesburgh and Templeton, 1993).