The three most important of these institutions, the president noted, were the church, the education system and the mass media.
The road to mass university education in Scotland has been long and slow.
And yet to define the university as the engine room of the knowledge economy also imposes complex new demands on an institution already struggling to reconcile its ancient tradition with the demands of mass higher education.
The 2008 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) indicated the functional literacy among persons ages 10 to 64 was 88.7 per cent for girls and women and 84.2 per cent for boys and men.
One of the hardest puzzles for mass higher education is how to make those universities that are not part of some such elite, whether formal or informal, concentrate on their students' needs rather than their own position in a pecking order based on research.
If the private sector could provide mass higher education, they would.
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Our education system today uses the mass production style manufacturing process of standardization.
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The government of Israel and UNESCO will sign an agreement to reinforce their cooperation in developing and promoting Holocaust education and combating denial of the mass murder of Jews and other groups in World War II.
Teaching in the vernacular, education for work, education for changing social and economic conditions, elitist education or mass education, melding traditional and modern knowledge systems are all located within the relevance debate.
But it was easy-to-use writing implements--including the pencil, pen and brush--that made mass education and literacy possible.
The Project is based on the vision of King Sejong the Great (r. 1418-1450), who created the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, and promoted mass literacy education for all.
That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.
Widespread secondary education has created a mass clientele for books, plays and the arts.
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We have made significant achievements in the last fifty years in food production, health sector, higher education, media and mass communication, industrial infrastructure, information technology, science and technology and defence.
Increased acquisition by individuals and families of the knowledge, skills, and values required for better living made available through all education channels, including mass media.
Government already drives K-12 education and is deeply involved in higher education, and tools such as TSP are all ready in place to improve the system on a mass scale.
Education about the Holocaust ultimately means to remove humanity as far away as possible from that extreme form of mass murder.
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