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Revisiting The Four Pillars of Learning

Zhou Nan-Zhao's article discusses the four pillars of learning - learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together, and learning to be - which are fundamental for reshaping 21st century education to meet modern challenges. The four pillars direct educational goals and reorient curriculum objectives to provide students with well-rounded development of their knowledge, skills, social abilities, and personal growth for active participation in society. While curriculum seeks to promote equal opportunities and development for all students, it must also consider preparing them for an interconnected global world and the continuity of lifelong learning beyond the classroom.

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Revisiting The Four Pillars of Learning

Zhou Nan-Zhao's article discusses the four pillars of learning - learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together, and learning to be - which are fundamental for reshaping 21st century education to meet modern challenges. The four pillars direct educational goals and reorient curriculum objectives to provide students with well-rounded development of their knowledge, skills, social abilities, and personal growth for active participation in society. While curriculum seeks to promote equal opportunities and development for all students, it must also consider preparing them for an interconnected global world and the continuity of lifelong learning beyond the classroom.

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Revisiting the Four Pillars of Learning – “Four Pillars of Learning for the Reorientation and Reorganization

of Curriculum Reflections and Discussions”.

Zhou Nan-Zhao’s article on “Revisiting the Four Pillars of Learning” stressed on the challenges of
the 21st century and how these challenges be met (as to Delors report). With this fast changing world of
today, everything changes and so education has also transformed over time. With that baffling change in
education arise also the challenges of modern day time.

I totally agree that the key to meet the challenges of the 21 st century is “learning throughout life”.
This for me is “holistic”. As we all know that learning starts at birth and it continues throughout lives. It’s a
continuous process. As we continue to live, we also continue to learn and this learning occurs through the
many experiences that we might encounter that would somehow make us better and productive individuals.

The report implied that learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together, and learning to be
are the four pillars of learning which are fundamental in reshaping 21 st century education. This for me
makes up its entirety. As educators, we impart knowledge to our students. We offer them the rationality for
them to better understand the real world. Then, as much as we could, we give them the skills to make
them become effective and productive individuals. Then, we aided them to become a “complete person” by
developing their potentials. We prepare them to become part and parcel of our society. And then, we
expose them to the real-world loaded with the necessary values. This might be “hypothetical” to others. But,
as a teacher I am doing this to the best of my capabilities.

Zhou Nan-Zhao reiterated that school curriculum seeks two broad aims: to provide equal
opportunities for all pupils to learn and to achieve, for best possible progress and at the highest attainment;
and to promote learners’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and prepare all pupils for the
world of work and societal responsibilities. Well, these aims if done into reality would really mean a lot to
our educational system. Our curriculum changes every now and then just to meet the demands of time.
Just a few years ago we have started to implement the K12 program to make sure that our curriculum is
fitting together with the global perspective. And the result has yet to come. But, of course these could only
be achieved if all stakeholders will work hand in hand to meet these goals.

As to Zhao, the four pillars of learning direct goals of education in the new century thus reorient the
setting of curriculum objectives. I am absolutely agreeable that school curriculum should be more balanced.
If we are providing our students basic knowledge, we should also develop their spiritual, moral, social skills
and the values as well. But we should not stop there. We should always remember that we are living in a
global world where global competitiveness exists. Thus, we should also give importance in contributing to
social interrelation, peaceful interchange, inter-cultural and inter-national understanding to achieve
harmony not only in their families, in their school, in their community but also in the world. We should also
remember that school education is only a part of the learning continuum. We should also take into
consideration that learning does not only confine in the four corners of the classroom but it could also be
acquired through their own experiences in life. It’s no longer enough to “know things.” It’s even more
important to stay curious about finding out things that is why we develop their 21 st century skills. We always
bear in mind that as teachers, we are here to prepare our students to be successful workers and
responsible citizens.

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