Four Pillars of Education

06/08/2011

I have come to understand our work in early childhood education and our everyday life with children as a political act. We are building democracy from the ground up.
Misa Okayama, Making Adjustments

UNESCO in its publication, Learning: The Treasure Within outlines four pillars of education:

Learning to know: "...concerned less with the acquisition of structured knowledge than with the mastery of learning tools. It may be regarded as both a means and an end of human existence."

Learning to do: "...how do we adapt education so that it can equip people to do the types of work needed in the future?"

Learning to live together: "...education should adopt two complementary approaches. From early childhood, it should focus on the discovery of other people in the first stage of education. In the second stage of education and in lifelong education, it should encourage involvement in common projects."

Learning to be: "...All people should receive in their childhood and youth an education that equips them to develop their own independent, critical way of thinking and judgment so that they can make up their own minds on the best courses of action in the different circumstances in their lives."

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