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This book reconsiders global problems such as energy and the arms race, as well as more recent issues like cultural identity, communications and information. Attention is primarily focused on human problems and potential, rather than on material constraints to growth. The analysis places particular importance on new forms of learning and education, for individuals and especially for society, as indispensable for laying the groundwork to deal with global issues, and for bridging the gap between the complexity and risks of current global issues and our presently inadequately developed capacity to face up to them. This is the first Report to the Club of Rome written by authors from socialist and Third World countries as well as from the West
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NO LIMITS TO LEARNING BRIDGING THE HUMAN GAP A Report to the Club of Rome
JAMES W. BOTKIN MAHDI ELMANDJRA MIRCEA MALITZA
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NO LIMITS TO LEARNING Bridging the Human Gap A REPORT TO THE CLUB OF ROME
JAMES W. BOTKIN MAHDI ELMANDJRA MIRCEA MALITZA
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Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 OBW, England Pergamon Press Inc., Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford, New York 10523, U.S.A. Pergamon of Canada, Suite 104,150 Consumers Road, Willowdale, Ontario M2J lP9, Canada Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 544, Potts Point, N.S.W. 2011, Australia Pergamon Press SARL, 24 rue des Ecoles, 75240 Paris, Cedex 05, France Pergamon Press GmbH, 6242 Kronberg-Taunus, Pferdstrasse 1, Federal Republic of Germany Copyright © 1979 James W. Botkin, Mahdi Elmandjra, Mircea Malitza All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the publishers First edition 1979 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Botkin, James W No limits to learning. - (Pergamon international library). 1. Social change 2. Learning - Social aspects I. Title II. Elmandjra, Mahdi III. Malitza, Mircea IV. Club of Rome 300