Lifelong learning: The mark of our time

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explain our general idea on how the introduction of continuing education would a e c t the ways of life of mankind, which we believe is in need of more adequate forms of life in order to achieve a better social interaction. The balance between the developmental systems of man's life today and those belonging to the dynamics of the concret world, which form the cybertechnological field of human relations, may be the basic and essential aspect to define the ideas and arguments exposed throughout our work. Consequently, the main issue is to propose: a) A project of future education starting from the analysis of the basic resemblances derived from the anthropological and ecological contents of human knowledge. 6) A non biased, critica1 study of the state of an education faced with acybercomputerised~ ways of life, in an attempt to reproduce historically valid answers for this situation and create those which will cover the transcendence of man in the face of a sophisticated materialist (technified) reality. c) To reproduce the basic problems of human identity and the nature of man, in order to rescue, throught a new educational approach, his own values above material values. d) To work through continuing education for the development of the human being. e) To allow and accept the thesis that continuing education is in itself suficiently valid to account for an epistemology which credits the theoretical and methodological studies of a new educational approach. Aiming at high level professional training, considering its multiplying effect.