The Necessity for Lifelong Learning Learning for the 21st Century - Part Two
We are living through a transformation that will rearrange the
politics and economics of the coming century...Each nation's primary
assets will be its citizens' skills and insights. Each nation's
primary political task will be to cope with the centrifugal forces of
the global economy which tear up the ties binding citizens together
- bestowing even greater wealth on the most skilled and insightful,
while consigning the less skilled to a declining standard of living.
Robert Reich (1991), The Work of Nations