The document discusses the aims and direction of education in the 21st century. It argues that education should focus on developing students' human values, creativity, talents, and ability to transform the world for the better through generosity, empathy, and critical thinking. Simply focusing on technical and economic skills could undermine the human values education needs to guide progress. Educators need to work together to bring about slow, participatory changes and ensure students' talents are devoted to serving humanity.

1. Learning for the XXIth century... in what direction? Roser Batlle

2. What changes are needed? Talent education? Creativity education? Technological skills? Learning to learn skills? Competency education?

3. But... They were creative... They had talent ... They had a good academical level... They were good communicators... They had reached a good level in the PISA evaluation...

4. But , if we live in a world like this...

5. What is the ultimate aim of learning? Improving the individual curriculum and competences? Promoting empathy and generosity to improve the world?

6. We must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather we must work to reconnect education to humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world Martha Nussbaum

7. The traditional assumption that "knowledge is power", and is used for personal gain is being subsumed by the notion that knowledge is an expression of the shared responsibilities for the collective wellbeing of humanity and the planet as a whole. Jeremy Rifkin

8. The secret of success in democratic societies consist of competing with oneself (...) And so, not only benefit oneself but also those with which we live (...) We can not build a just society with mediocre citizens. Adela Cortina

9. The ultimate aim of education is to train competent citizens capable of transforming the world

10. individual creativity learning self-esteem talent local community generosity service empathy critical thinking global In order to do this, we need both:

11. And to do it, we need each other:

12. Slippery Slope If we focus only or mainly on the lack of technical and economical skills... we may forget the human values education which can guide these skills. If we think that disruptive innovations come only from extreme environments... we may forget the participation of teachers . If we are too concern with the fastest way to promote changes... we may forget that in education, changes are always slow .

13. We must recover from the "Declaration of Geneva" of 1923, a powerful and luminous principle that remained incomprenhensibly buried in the current Convention on the Rights of the Child: The child must be brought up in the consciuosness that its talents must be devoted to the service of the people A final claim:

14. If not, what is the education for? www.roserbatlle.wordpress.com