PART Issues and Developments of Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 2. Promoting Lifelong Learning
1. Outline
For our country to build rich and active society in the 21st
century, it is demanded that the excessive dependence on formal education shall
be revised, that the adverse effects of undue emphasis on the educational background
of individuals shall be corrected, and that a society which duly appreciates
achievements aquired from lifelong learning shall come about.
In order to promote lifelong learning, the Ministry of Education,
Science and Culture has been making efforts 1) to develop infrastructures to
promote lifelong learning, 2) to provide basic knowledge and skills and nurture
the competency for independent learning as well as to enrich schools as an institution
for lifelong learning, and 3) to promote social education, cultural activities
and sports, all of which shall play an important role as opportunities and places
for lifelong learning.
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