Are we challenging the future?
or
Is the future challenging us?
Helsinki, April 2008
Henno Theisens, CERI/ OECD

Schooling for Tomorrow
• Long term thinking is important especially
in education:
– Pupils who start their education today will be
working in 15 to 20 years time.
– Increasing complexity of educational systems
necessitates longer term visions
• But educational policy making is often
short term, responding to incidents and
direct political pressures.

Dealing with the future is
challenging…
“Stocks have reached what looks like a
permanently high plateau.”
Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University
Just before the 1929 Wall St. Crash