ABSTRACT
Humans have a predilection for acquiring and retaining information for future use and, surely of more importance, to pass on to their successors. The minds and spirits of children have been molded by parents since the dawn of civilization – ever more successfully as the generations and their cultural acquisitions progressed. Chapter 4 titled “Education” reminds us that teaching and learning are the give-and-take tools meant to ensure the communication of information whether practical or of ephemeral interest. We know today that the processes of communication are vital to the future of our species. Information, whether in bulk or as trifling data, is made to be passed on. Its packaging, by random subject or organized discipline (sometimes both), we call education. Chapter 4 stresses our universal obligation to make education available to all – with particular reference to the disadvantaged of all categories, and woman and girl. Learning must become as nearly lifelong as family and community can manage to provide. Education has come to the fore of efforts by the international community toward sustaining the future of humanity through viewing education as a major driver of development.
