Lifelong Education: A Panacea for All Educational Ills?

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The increasing pace of social and technological change which has marked recent years, along with the desire of educators to foster greater social and vocational equality between classes and among nations, has facilitated the development of the concept of ‘lifelong education’. According to this principle, education is a lifelong process, and should not be confined to certain age-groups, but should be available to all people throughout their lives. Formal education should, therefore, be a preparation for a lifetime of learning as an adaptation to change, while the teacher's role should also be modified. Unfortunately, writers in the area tend to be excessively enthusiastic, and to describe Ufelong education as leading to all things they regard as good. Thus, they present it as a kind of universal educational panacea. Nonetheless, life-long education is an organizational principle of considerable interest, and deserves serious study, especially of an empirical kind.

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