ABSTRACT
Not very long ago, and in many parts of the world even today, young people would leam skills they could use in their work throughout life. Today, in industrial countries, most people are doing jobs that did not exist when they were bom. The most important skill determining a person’s life pattern has already become the ability to leam new skills, to take in new concepts, to assess new situations, to deal with the unexpected. This will be increasingly true in the future: The competitive ability is the ability to leam. (Papert, 1993, p. vii)
