Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 05:21:54 -0400
From: Alfredo Armando AGUIRRE <[email protected]>

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON EDITED MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL IN SPANISH

OFFICIAL NOTICED ABOUT TECHNOLOGICAL BACKWARDNESS IN SCHOOLS Paris. - The General director of the Unesco, Koichiro Matsuura, noticed today that the schools are becoming strengths of the past and not in roads to the future, when being more and more far from the big technological and social changes, informed the international organism. The official made that warning when presenting today his vision of how the Unesco should work (Organization of the United Nations for the Education, the Science and the Culture) to promote the basic education in the entire world.

"The students think that the schools are less and less useful to prepare them for the future", Matsuura asserted, at the same time that it sustained that "the schools are becoming strengths of the past, instead of roads for the future."

"To provide an Education For All, to reach the unreachable thing - Matsuura continued - they are necessary new and innovative methods that, often, they go beyond the environment of the established education, of bureaucracies and systems."

Matsuura pronounced these words in the Directive Committee for the Advisory International Forum of Education For All (EPT), had created for 10 years with the purpose of to extend the basic education all over the world and to reduce the illiteracy.

Matsuura renovated the commitment of the Unesco in the task of improving the "educational quality and noticed that the education basic today in day it cannot be limited to read, to write and to make bills."

"Each community -asserted - needs citizens able to measure the scientific progress and its essential applications in terms of health, sustainable development and in the battle against the epidemics like the AIDS."

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