Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-08-Speech-5-023"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-09-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Year of Lifelong Learning (1996)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000908.4.5-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-09-08-Speech-5-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Lage2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2001-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2002-01-16)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the traditional concept of education was that students would cease learning when they left school. It is true that a small elite would continue to create, pass on or acquire new knowledge and ideas, but for the great majority, leaving school meant the end of formal education. Things have changed radically. Learning has become broader and longer. New methods and sources for acquiring knowledge and training have appeared. Anyone who does not keep up with this progress, these new requirements, risks becoming marginalised, undervalued in his or her professional life, risks losing social status and suffering intellectual impoverishment. It is said, and rightly so, that we are becoming a society of information and knowledge. The great philosopher Nietzsche, however, warned us that it is impossible to found a civilisation on knowledge. This warning should give us food for thought. Although, today, there is no alternative to scientific progress and to the increase in knowledge and information, the truth of the matter is that lifelong learning cannot be reduced simply to the acquisition of useful skills. It must be part of a culture, of a set of values that provide meaning for mankind’s life in society. Lifelong learning and training has therefore become an indispensable factor that states, educational bodies and the public themselves can no longer underestimate. Holding the European Year of Lifelong Learning and Training was an important step and a symbolic moment in raising the awareness of the European people with regard to this new state of affairs. The theorising that preceded and continued throughout the European Year of Lifelong Learning and the considerable interest it raised in schools and citizens’ groups made a major contribution to this. ‘Lifelong learning and training’ has definitively entered the vocabulary of politicians, educationalists and businesspeople. Even more importantly, these words have also become part of everyday language. Lifelong learning and training has also become an instrument in the fight against academic failure, students giving up on education and illiteracy. It is therefore a good cause. For these reasons, this initiative was valuable, timely and fruitful. Its objectives were achieved and what was lacking in funds was compensated for by the harnessing of goodwill and by the number of people who signed up to it. The line between people’s first educational experiences and later opportunities has now been crossed. Education… ( )"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"The President cut the speaker off"1

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