Challenges and Dilemmas

For forty years UNESCO has been engaged in the promotion of education, considered to be a fundamental human right. The right to read and write are inscribed in numerous international charters, and the international community officially supports these rights. How is it that in 1990 there are at least 965 million adults on our planet who are illiterate and more than 130 million children of school age who have never been to school at all? Why is it that in all the industrialized countries where school has long been compulsory, hundreds of thousands of young people leave school each year without a certificate or a diploma? Why has the system failed? The tendency is to blame the victim insofar as one speaks of school failure. How have we come to this fact, and what are the challenges that concern us all during the International Year of Literary 1990

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