Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-14-Speech-1-083"
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"Mr President, in Europe today, education has increased in importance beyond all recognition. In particular, lifelong learning is becoming more important to people's everyday lives, whether as regards access to opportunities to employment, or in using ATM machines to get cash, or having to go on-line to get banking and other services because local public services are being closed down in an era of competition and liberalisation.
That is why it is important at this juncture in the European Parliament that when we speak about education we make sure that it is all-inclusive. Of course, we must pay due attention to people who are at present within the formal education system, and improving the Erasmus and the Escola programmes and other similar programmes is vitally important. However, we must not forget that we are now in danger of creating a new class of technologically illiterate people, who will be denied access to this new, wonderful information highway and society which we are creating.
So, over the next ten years – as my colleague has said – the area we should focus on is ensuring that people now in middle age are given the tools of knowledge, information and education in order to be able to live in the altered world which will be coming about. I offer my support to the reports which have been submitted. I know that the Commissioner will be most innovative in bringing forward new ideas for
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