The four pillars of education

1. The Four Pillars
of Education
Social Dimensions of
Educations
BY: Joemarie O. Rendon

2. Learning Outcomes
 Identify the four pillars of education.
 Internalize the importance of living in harmony with each other
and with the environment.
 Demonstrate solidarity of mankind regardless of race, religion
and culture in various situations.
 Apply the four pillars of education in different learning
experiences.

3. Introduction
 Learning the Treasure Within
- report of the International Commission on Education for the 21st century
chaired by Jacques Delors.
- published by UNESCO in 1996 provides new insights into education.
 Lifelong learning
- it stresses that each individual must equipped to seize learnings opportunity
throughout life, both to broaden her/his knowledge , skills and attitudes and adopt
to a changing ,complex and interdependent world .

4. Four Pillars of Education
 proposed as framework to understand what
students need to acquire an develop in themselves.

5. What do the Four Pillars mean
to you ?
 The framework organized lifelong learning into four pillars.
1. Learning to Know
2. Learning to Do
3. Learning to live together
4. Learning to be which are fundamental in reshaping 21st
century education.

6. Learning to know
 Implies learning how to learn by developing ones’s concentration, memory skills
and ability to think.
 Includes the development of the faculties of memory ,imagination, reasoning,
problem solving and the ability to think in a coherent and critical way.
 Involves the development of knowledge and skills that are needed to function
in the world.
 The skills include literacy , numeracy and critical thinking.
 It also presupposes learning to learn (autonomous learning ) so as to benefit
from the opportunities education provides throughout life.

7. Learn to know students needed to
develop learn to learn skills as:
 Learning to read with
comprehension
 Listening
 Observing
 Asking Questions
 Data gathering
 Note Taking
 Accessing , processing and
selecting information

8. Role of the 21st century teacher
The emphasis is not on “ what there is
to know “ but on “ learning to know”.

9. Teachers becomes . . .
Facilitators
Catalysts
Monitor
Evaluator

10. The teachers helps learner to:
 Develop values and skills for searching for knowledge and
wisdom.
 Learn to learn
 Acquire a taste for learning throughout life
 Develop critical thinking
 Acquire tools and processes for understanding
 Develop intellectual curiosity

11. As a result learner . . .
Transformed more Enlightened
More Empowered
More Enriched