Bücher der Reihe Plan Europe 2000, Project 1: Educating Man for the 21st Century

In instituting its prospective studies the European Cultural Founda tion has to some extent gone against tradition.

It is difficult for us today to imagine that equal educational opportunity, with which we are so deeply preoccupied, was at one time considered to be if not an evil at least a futile objective, and that those who held such an opinion were completely insincere and even disinterested.

This volume has been prepared in the framework of Project 1: "Educating Man for the 21st Century" of Plan Europe 2000, sponsored by the European Cultural Foundation.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Primary education in Europe, as in the United States and other conti nents, is passing through a period of profound change, affecting some of the fundamental educational aims at primary school level and teaching structure, content and methods.

In "Plan Europe 2000," launched by the European Cultural Foundation, the first project is devoted to education. The project is in fact a long-term prospective effort, which must take into consideration* - major constraints and unyielding tendencies, scarcely susceptible of significant change;

When considering future trends in educational and vocational orientation we must constantly bear in mind, in as concrete a way as possible, that schools form an integral part of society as a whole.

The Steering Committee for the Plan Europe 2000, Project 1: Education, invited the working group to analyse the problems of technical and vocational education projected over the next 30 years, both at se condary school and at university level.

His very helpful review of pancreatitis is based not only on a thorough assimilation of clinical and experimental evidence but also on his long clinical practice in university hospitals and in private practice.

In 1965 Mr. Raymond Poignant published a comparative study, entitled "Education in the Common Market Countries", of the organi sation and state of development of education in the six countries of the Community and in three industrialised countries: the United States, the United Kingdom and the USSR.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Primary education in Europe, as in the United States and other conti nents, is passing through a period of profound change, affecting some of the fundamental educational aims at primary school level and teaching structure, content and methods.