ABSTRACT
Education is our most important function as human beings: it is an investment in ourselves, future generations, and the planet. The ultimate objective of this book is to improve economic education by fostering and creating pluralism. The increased interdependencies of today’s problems has changed the responsibility and goals of education, as Weehuizen explains:
The main responsibility of education is no longer the mere transmission of some existing stock of knowledge, but rather training students in dealing with new knowledge in a meaningful way. Since we neither know what kind of knowledge will be available in the future, nor what kind of problems students will face . . . transmission of knowledge has been reduced from being the main function of education to merely being a part of it. Students have to learn how to learn.
