Globalization and Living Together

Book excerpt: Education is gearing towards, preparing individuals to live in together since ancient times. However, the nation of Learning to Live Together is clearly shaped only very recently by the UNESCO s International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century. The Commission emphasised that education for the 21st century based on four pillars, namely, Learning to know, Learning to do, Learning to be and Learning to live together. The first three pillars are essential for the sound development of persons, communities or individual nations, but the fourth pillar, learning to live together, is of a different more global nature: its omission may result in the annihilation of all other educational, cultural, health and developmental efforts through war, terrorism, deterioration of resources, pandemics, etc.