Universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by internationalorganizations bilateral aid agencies national governments and nonprofitorganizations. Yet little ... » 

Universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by internationalorganizations bilateral aid agencies national governments and nonprofitorganizations. Yet little sustained international attention has been devoted tothe purposes or goals of universal education. What is universal primary andsecondary education intended to accomplish? This book which grew out of aproject of the American Academy of Arts Sciences offers diverse views fromAsia Africa Europe North America and South America and from diversecultures religions and professions on the purposes of universal education.It is the first book in which renowned authors from around the world haveconfronted one another in proposing goals of basic and secondary education andin considering and responding to the differing views of others on one of themost pressing issues facing education today. «