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Education: The essential foundation for human rights
- Source: The UNESCO Courier, Volume 2018, Issue 4, Jan 2019, p. 22 - 23
- Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
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- 05 Jan 2019
Abstract
“Education for freedom does not mean, as it has frequently been thought to mean, a laissez-faire programme of content or of methods of instruction, but the intelligent recognition of responsibility and duty,” wrote the American educator Isaac L. Kandel (1881-1965), in his article “Education and Human Rights”, sent to UNESCO in 1947. Excerpts follow.
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