1, for life

This is the biggest feature of lifelong education. It breaks through the framework of conventional schools and regards education as a continuous learning process and the sum of all kinds of training received in a person's life, thus realizing the unity of the whole education process from preschool to old age. It includes formal education and informal education. It includes all stages and forms of the education system.

2. Nationality

The universality of lifelong education means that people who receive lifelong education include all people, regardless of gender, age, difference between rich and poor, race and gender. Albert, an education researcher in Hamburg, UNESCO, pointed out that lifelong education has the characteristics of democratization, and opposed educational knowledge to serve the so-called elite, so that ordinary people with multiple abilities can get educational opportunities equally.

In fact, everyone in today's society should learn to survive, and learning to survive is inseparable from lifelong education, because survival and development are the mainstream of the times, and learning is necessary for survival, which is a new topic put forward by modern society for everyone.

Step 3 extend

Lifelong education includes not only family education, but also school education and social education. It can be said that it includes all stages of people, and it is education in all aspects, at all times and in all countries. Lifelong education has expanded the learning world and injected new vitality into the whole education.

4, flexible and practical

Modern lifelong learning is flexible, which shows that anyone who needs to learn can receive any form of education anytime and anywhere. The time, place, content and method of study are all decided by individuals. People can choose the most suitable study according to their own characteristics and needs.

Influence on an aging society

According to estimates by the Alzheimer's Disease Association, by 2030, more than one million Canadians will suffer from Alzheimer's disease. "Exercise the brain can protect the brain and prevent mental weakness" (Grady, 20 12). In North America and even the whole world, in order to actively curb the potential economic problems brought by the aging of baby boomers, we need to look at society from the perspective of lifelong learning.

Consider community projects to attract retirees and promote their cognitive health. Taking active measures to let our elderly people participate in learning and exercise their brains, as described by Grady, will reduce the pressure on the health care system, not to mention the families of the elderly.

A study published by the US Department of Health and Human Services shows that elderly people with mild cognitive impairment get 8.5 hours more care than their families, while elderly people with severe cognitive impairment get 465,438+0.5 hours more care than those without cognitive impairment (USDHHS, 2007).

As a society, our life expectancy is longer (85 years for men and 90 years for women), so cognitive health is very important.

Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-lifelong education