Now UN Promotes Global Education…”And third: Foster global citizenship.”
TheDailyBell.com
Sunday, November 25, 2012
United Nations, New York – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon video message to the first Global Education for All meeting … I am happy to welcome you to this first Global Education for All meeting … Two months ago, during the UN General Assembly, I launched Education First, a new initiative to push forward our education agenda. It was a great success, and I commend the leadership of Mme. Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO. – YouTube
Dominant Social Theme: Thank goodness the UN is involving itself in education.
Free-Market Analysis: Oh, boy. The United Nations is promoting educational goals. Ten years ago, the “international community” authorized the UN to achieve something called Education for All by 2015.
In this video, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon provides the first-ever update on this ambitious program.
We learn from an article entitled, “Goals adopted in Dakar at the World Education Forum … cover the whole educational spectrum, from early childhood, primary and secondary education, through to vocational programmes for youth and literacy programmes for adults.”
In the video, below, Ban Ki-Moon simplifies the progrm. The goals for Education First, he explains, “are simple”:
First: Put every child in school.
Second: Improve the quality of learning.
And third: Foster global citizenship.
Global citizenship? Here’s how the Financial Times Lexicon defines it:
Global citizenship is a trait or characteristic in our definition of a global leader. Global leaders are global citizens because they recognise that the prosperity of one individual, one company or one nation is interdependent with the prosperity of others. This idea that one’s responsibilities transcend geography or political borders is at the heart of global citizenship.
The Rest…HERE