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Not long after I joined UNESCO in 1989, I met with Dr. Chitra Naik at the Pune Institute of Education to discuss what had to be done to meet the learning needs of out-of-school children in India. She invited me to visit one of the non-formal education projects being undertaken by her Institute in collaboration with UNESCO. We set off to visit a small community some 100 km from Pune. The village did have a primary school, but most of the children living in the tribal area near the village had never been to school.
Only the educated are free.
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Throughout this book where the source of quotations is not given, it comes either from my field notes (as in this case) or unpublished addresses given either by me or the Director-General of UNESCO.
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The description given in a news article entitled “Power to the People” by Dorothy Illing in Australian Education, Winter 1998, 17–18.
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Power, C. (2015). The Power of Education. In: The Power of Education. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 27. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-221-0_1
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