08.26.07
Open Course, Week One, Question 1
OpenEd:
In your opinion, is the “right to education” a basic human right? Why or why not? In your opinion, is open *access* to free, high-quality educational opportunity sufficient, or is it necessary to *mandate* education through a certain age or level?
Well,
I’ve read at the present time only the paper Panel on Innovative Teaching and Learning strategies, it may happen, that I won’t have much more time this week for any other paper.
My opinion is that the right to education is a basic human right, because it is nowaday sure that education in a broad meaning is essential to the development of one person and of the society in general: access to education is a key passage to the access to learning how to manage information, relating to people, and so on.
This, from the point of view of western society.
I think that open access to education is not enough: the digital divide is still a real problem, even in countries like Italy and some other european ones; at a certain age it is useful, if not necessary at all, to give advice and help younger people to learn how to use the instruments (open access is also an instrument for education, I suppose), because knowledge is not good enough without wisdom - meaning this last one related to a good use and practice of the instruments.
At least, the paper I read is focussed upon the idea and assumption that anyone is stronlgy interested in participation and highly commetted to take part to education.
I think it’s not so widespread true, for the present time.
