Overseas: West Germany

Abstract

The concept of ‘lifelong learning’ must seem like a bad dream to every young man. Have not generations before us spent lifetimes of learning with complete success? Have they not had to go on learning whilst doing their daily work? Did they not manage, after all, to keep abreast of developments? In that case, why do we today have to raise the question of ‘lifelong learning’? Apparently, it has become harder than it used to be to reach and retain, while at work, a correct balance between the knowledge that has already been assimilated and the knowledge that is still required to be assimilated.

Citation

Onken, H. (1971), "Overseas: West Germany", Education + Training, Vol. 13 No. 11, pp. 389-390. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001740