构建终身学习体系 建设学习型社会

Lifelong learning and the learning society

终身学习是社会中个人根据社会发展和个人发展的需要,利用现代学习技术和手段,灵活地选择安排学习时机、时间、空间以及进程的学习制度,从终身教育走向终身学习,标志着教育乃至社会领域发生了深刻变革,是人类文明的一大进步。由此,构建终身学习体系,形成全民参与的学习型社会,是一个国家兴旺发达的保证。

Lifelong learning is a mechanism facilitating individuals to flexibly make use of the modern techniques, opportunities, and accesses to meet their social demand for education. Lifelong learning, symbolic of new progress of civilization, signifies the substantial transitions in education and society. And the lifelong learning mechanism helps build up the learning society, for the sake of a healthy and prosperous nation.