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| Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser al Missned addresses the 47th Session of the International Conference on Education |
09-12-2004 10:00 am Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General UNESCO and Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser al Missned, UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education closed the 47th Session of the International Conference on Education, September 11th 2004, in Geneva. “Quality education for all young people: challenges, trends and priorities” was the theme of this session of the conference. Delegates from more than 135 countries attending the conference have identified a range of priority actions aimed at improving the quality of education for all young people and appealed for the mobilization of all partners in order to achieve this goal.
Quality education today, concluded UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura at the closing ceremony, must “assist young people to acquire the attitudes and competencies of what might be called the ‘democratic mind’. There is room in such a mind for stable and enduring values such as tolerance, solidarity, mutual understanding and respect for human rights (…) such a mind needs to be flexible and adaptable, capable of analyzing and understanding different perspectives but also able to build and re-build a coherent outlook. Such mindsets cannot be generated by traditional approaches focused on academic content and rigid teaching methods.”
“It is clear,” Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser al Missned said, “that quality education involves all sectors of society, not merely the education sector, and that quality educational institutions can only arise out of a culture of quality. This culture needs to be rooted firmly in the values, beliefs and behaviours of our citizens.”
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