ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to interpret the concept of world citizenship and argues that the citizen of the world today should be able to deal with its current problems: "international criminality, genocide, terrorism, state terrorism, and struggle for domination". The idea of cultivating humanity for world citizenship is based on the vision of the need to educate young children to be citizens of the world who can deal with the great problems of humanity for civilization, that is the problem of the financial crisis, the clash of civilizations, and the need for sustainable development of humanity in order to survive. The concept of the citizen of the world depends on universalist thinking, which is developed in travel and in the encounter with others. The education for cosmopolitanism is an education to go beyond the clash of civilizations toward a global conversation of understanding. Important for philosophy of education is the development of the self and transmission of knowledge to the self.
