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A Commitment to Improve Education

Comments opening the last discussion at the International Summit for the Teaching Profession, New York, March 2012. By Fernando M. Reimers, Ed.D., Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy at Harvard University.

This has been a wonderful meeting for two reasons. First, because we are tackling one of the most important challenges of our time: how to create the conditions that give the next generation the skills to invent the future, a more humane, just and sustainable future. Second, because in spite of the enormity of the challenge there is in this room a palpable sense of possibility, a sense that ‘yes, we can’ tackle the challenge of creating conditions that give every child and young person a chance to expand their minds and their freedoms.

This is especially remarkable, that there is this sense of possibility, because we live difficult times. Times of economic recession in many countries. Of having to do more with less. Of real uncertainty about the future. It would be understandable in that context if we allowed our imagination and sense of possibility to be constrained by these circumstances, but we have not allowed this.

To read the rest of Professor Reimers' comments, please visit the Education International website.

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