Future generations.
The diversity of philosophies prevalent around the world is humanity's greatest asset to building an inclusive and tolerant global citizenry, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) said today, marking the tenth edition of World Philosophy Day. In her message for the Day, UNESCO's Director-General, Irina Bokova, called on nations to invest more in philosophical training for schoolchildren while stressing the “urgent need” to pass on to the world's youth “the taste for philosophy, its rigour and its joys, from the earliest age.” “UNESCO reaffirms the power of philosophy to change the world, because it can help us to change ourselves by giving weight to our indignation before injustice, lucidity to ask the right questions, and conviction to defend human dignity,” Ms. Bokova said. “In all these ways, it holds the key to a new humanism,” she added, underlining the significance of philosophy in making “sense of questions of...