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Former Federal President Prof. Roman Herzog Photo: Adrian Jankowski
Patron of Kids Globe
Extracts from the 1997 "Berlin Address"
by the former German Federal President
“Education must become the Mega-Issue of our society. We need radical change in educational policy if we are to hold our place in the coming knowledge-based society.”
“We must encourage our young people to be more self-reliant, to be more interested in educating themselves, to be more enterprising, and to have a stronger willingness to take active responsibility for themselves and their society.”
“Our young people are our greatest asset.”
“We must become a global learning society, a society that looks around the world for the best ideas and the best solutions.”
“The best years are still ahead of us.”