Learning Communities: A Catalyst for collective responsibility

Keynote Speech from the Lifelong Learning Conference June 2004 : Introduction : "This conference asks us to consider the question, who should be responsible for lifelong learning? It is a question I wish we did not have to ask. In an intelligent country, one would expect the answer to be self-evident and unnecessary. Why? Because the very process of lifelong learning would make it obsolete. The learning itself would trigger the assumption of responsibility. But we do have to ask the question. I will ponder why and then consider some ways of moving closer to a learning society."