Themes
Education must link citizenship and sustainability
If you are planning for a year – sow rice. If you are planning for a decade– plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime – educate your children (Chinese proverb)
lo mas importante tanto para la DEMOCRACIA, como la SUSTENIBILIDAD, además de su interacción, es la EDUCACIÓON, ENSEÑANZA. Una sociedad crítica y con cultura política
Educar en el presente para construir el futuro
Education and learning are the basis for every progressive development in democracy.
Education can strengthen existing institutions and laws that support decision-making for sustainability by planting the seeds for shared values that are based not on ‘having’ but on simply ‘being’. Institutions and changes in laws can point the way to change, but they will be unstable unless they rest on strong values or sturdy cultural foundations. Education is hugely important in this process.
Education and learning don’t happen only in schools and universities. As our story from the UK about hands-on practical education for citizenship shows, there’s also an education and learning for life which happens in communities and workplaces, in meeting spaces and in gatherings of friends and families around the world.
Here’s what the Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability says about education.
Manifesto for Democracy and Sustainability Principle 4: Education must link citizenship and sustainability
Education must nurture the knowledge and values needed to strengthen democratic action for sustainability. It must empower all people, whatever their age, to be active as citizens and followers, and wise as leaders. It must help to unlock the potential of being, not having.
All people, from an early age, should have access to an education that builds the skills and knowledge to shape democracy so that it can deliver a healthy environment and fairness for everyone.
Commitments
We support civic education that develops active citizens and builds deep understanding of the case for democracy and its practices in different contexts.
We advocate strong programmes of lifelong sustainability education.