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FOUR
PILLARS
OF

Four Pillars of Education

Learning the Treasure Within
by Jacques Delors provides new
insights into education for the 21st
century.
It stresses that each individual
must be equipped to seize learning
opportunities throughout life, both
to broaden his/her knowledge,
skills and attitudes, and adapt
to a
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changing,
complex,
and

What are the four pillars of

education?

Learning
Learning
Learning
Learning

to
to
to
to

know
do
live together
be

Learning To Know
Acquiring
the
understanding.

instruments

for

Learning to know implies learning how

to
learn
by
developing
ones
concentration, memory skills and ability
to think.
This type of learning is concerned less
with the acquisition of structured
knowledge but more with the mastery
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of learning tools.

Learning To Know
Such
study
encourages
greater
intellectual curiosity, sharpens the
critical faculties and enables people to
develop their independent judgments
on the world around them.
However,
since
knowledge
is
multifarious and capable of virtually
infinite development, any attempt to
everything becomes more and more
pointless.
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Learning To Know
A truly educated person needs a broad general
education and the opportunities to study small
subjects in depth.
To learn to know, students need to develop
learn to learn skills.
The role of the teacher then is as facilitator,
catalyst, monitor and evaluator of learning
because the process of learning to think is a
lifelong one and can be enhanced by every
kind of human experience.
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