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Lifelong Integrated Education
Common Rules for Survival in the Space Age
Education to Teach Us to Live with Nature as well as
to Master Science and Technology
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Aspirations
Four years have already passed since the 11th International Forum.
Time indeed flies. But when we come to think about it, its passage has
always been constant since ancient times.
However, the rapid changes in our society and in our relations with the world give us the impression that time has been accelerating since the slower paced world of fifty years ago.
If we look back on history, never have we experienced such rapid changes
in such a short period of time.
We witness the emergence of conveniences and devices we could not have
dreamed of when we were born.
We see the amount of time we spend every day working on computers and holding
our smartphones in our hands.
And we can foresee the prospect of a near future when AI might replace human labor.
The speed at which these devices have developed, made possible by our rapidly
evolving scientific civilization, have made it inevitable for the world
to globalize. While creating a world more closely interlinking peoples
and nations, it has also widened the inter-generational gaps existing in
our perceptions of today's world, sowing division, discord, and isolation
within families and among nations.
This evolution in advanced science is far outpacing the speed of human
development. We are unable not only to fully utilize the technology we
have created, but also to control it, as evidenced by the fact that we
have yet to bring the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which occurred
in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, fully under control.
Against the backdrop of such rapid changes in our society, how should we
use technology to fill the resulting inter-generational gaps? And how can
people of different generations and countries in different environments
coexist?
No matter how significant may be the changes and the conditions governing
how individually and collectively we live, the natural world must have
had common rules for survival that have sustained all things since the
beginning of time.
And no matter what new devices are developed, we humans must not neglect
our mission to create a society that cherishes and respects the identity
of each one of us.
We are holding this 12th International Forum in the hope of developing
our inner potential while respecting the uniqueness of each person. Together
with all participants from Japan and abroad, we shall discuss how we can
pass on this precious life from the past to the future, and how human beings
should be educated to coexist with each other, with nature, and with our
inventions.
July, 2018 |
Yumiko Kaneko
Director General
Nomura Center for Lifelong Integrated Education |
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Nomura Center for Lifelong Integrated Education
