Education for Humanity

摘要

Humanity is facing nearly insurmountable challenges, risks, and crises. Resource depletion, global pollution of the entire biosphere, and climate change due to our excessive and uncontrollably growing human population may be the most difficult long-term problems that urgently need to be solved. However, the current influenza pandemic and other unforeseen but inevitable health emergencies including hunger, poverty, and a lack of universal public health infrastructure in the absence of stable country governments are common occurrences in our present world, and they will be increasingly problematic as our populations grow in a resource-depleted world. Conflicts including wars and terrorism, and a lack of reliable national and international leadership abetted by religious intolerance and corruption in governmental and religious institutions will contribute to the expected widespread failure of educational systems. Here, we shall address the causes and consequences of educational system failures, from elementary schools to universities.