ABSTRACT
One of the key features of postmodernism is that it is associated with an unprecedented increase in global communications. Postmodern society is rapidly-changing. In the modern era, education originally drew upon the 'classics' in various spheres of human thought, and later this became somewhat amended. Throughout the debate about education within postmodern capitalism, is the sense that education is being viewed very much as a commercial product and hence evaluated according to pragmatic criteria. The increased flexibility and diversity of the educational system, has benefits, but also risks. It is perhaps interesting to consider the possible factors which have resulted in an apparently enhanced awareness of risk in contemporary society. The risk for the individual is a form of philosophical isolationalism in which each human being looks out at the world with a specific world view, and the challenge is to forge ways of communicating with other world views.
