Extrait du Rapport Faure (UNESCO, 1972). Il s’agit des pages 151 et 152 de la version française (que j’ai sous les yeux) ou 133 de la version anglaise (en pdf ici)
« Dans de nombreux pays, l’inexistence des infrastructures nécessaires à l’introduction de la technologie moderne, les coûts souvent prohibitifs […] constituent des obstacles sérieux […] Mais des expériences originales […] sont venues démontrer qu’il existe un autre chemin: celui de la mise en valeur des capacités créatrices de tous, grâce à de nouvelles formes d’organisation et de mobilisation des masses. […] »
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In many countries, the infrastructure needed to introduce modern technology does not exist. The cost of the investments required is prohibitive and it is impossible to train professional personnel and develop the facilities required in a short time. These constitute such serious obstacles to applying the most advanced techniques that the dazzling prospects opened up to developing countries, especially in education, risk being nothing more than a mirage, for a long while to come, generating possibly dangerous illusions.
Yet certain countries which are technologically retarded have made some original experiments which show there is another way out: that of using everyone’s creative ability through mobilizing and organizing the people in new ways. To do this means calling on all their energy and intelligence, so that they join in promoting a new type of technological and scientific development answering to the nation’s needs.
The promotion of new techniques in no way implies dismissal of the most vital component of the fundamental educational reforms required by our age: the massive development of latent human resources. In the years to come, pro g ress in educational technologies will permit a large measure of individual fulfilment for those in the advantageous position to benefit from it. And increasing use of new technologies will not be limited to formal education. It will spread beyond this sector and lead to considerable advances, in the fairly near future, in other fields of educational activity‹promotion of literacy, basic education and public information‹through the deployment of modern mass-communication media.
But prospects for mobilizing the human potential‹at present scarcely tapped‹are far from being dependent on technological means alone.
There are immense possibilities for mass participation in the social and educational enterprise. Peoples until now submerged by the tides of history are becoming aware of their will and their power. The size and strength of the potential to be unleashed through mobilizing the people, through volunteer movements and spontaneous popular organizations, is clear from examples in many countries over the past fifty years.
Liberating the energies of the people, unleashing their creative power, heads the list of future prospects for the development of education in the world of tomorrow.
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