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Article: Sustainable development through culture education.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 5, 2005
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I HAVE an abiding faith in Culture Education as the enduring force to develop and transform values relevant to the current and evolving needs of societies and nations, such as Sustainable Development. Culture Education touches the life systems of individuals, groups, and societies beyond skills and competencies. Blended with technology, the result could be a formidable force which could have prevented the unforeseen disasters of big corporate governance which came to light at the beginning of this third millennium.
In the last decades, heroic efforts have been initiated by the United Nations and other inter-governmental organizations, governments, ...