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bibiNovember 29, 2011 at 2:40 PM

Maria Ivelis Padilla Arias

The four pillars of education which are learning to know, leaning

to do, learning together and learning to be ,each one has a
different point of view and helps us see things and understand
different things. Learning to know; mainly talks about how we
start thinking, we process things, how we concentrate, and
memory skills. As you know since we are small kids we start
learning, concentrating and thinking. I personally think this is
the most important pillar of education since it’s the first one we
develop and use in our live. Learning to do; talks about how can
we use education and how can we adapt it to future. What I
understand about this learning is that is for professional
persons, who want to improve it all. The learning to be together;
talks about how can we unite the world, how can we teach our
students to care for others and make awareness of what is
going on, in the world and in other countries and the last one
learning to be; talks about how can we just be ourselves and
succeed and how that can help us in education letting us be
creative and follow our opinions and statements.
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MArJORIeTYwinssJuly 5, 2016 at 10:37 PM

what are some problems under learning to know that

you commonly observed in the family that affects the
child's learning?
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Guadalupe ArtigasNovember 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM
 I believe as educators we must combine all the pillars. All make
the basis of a good education. We need to give the students
knowledge in order to gain the competencies they need to
outstand in their future. We must give them the tools they need
to recognize the world around them, exercise their memory,
attention and thought. If they have the knowledge they learn to
do, they materialize what they have in their brains; each one
according to their level and capabilities. They learn to make
judgments about right and wrong so they can think critically.
Also we should guide them through the discovery of who they
are, and what do they want in life, we must provide all the
possible experiences so they can reach to those answers. If
they know who they are, accept and love themselves they will
accept, tolerate and love others. They will learn the importance
of a person’s essence; that goes beyond social class, color,
education and culture. All the pillars are part of an integral
education that allows us to form human beings, that will be able
to defend themselves in a world of constant change and will
make them part of a better world.
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Yasmin LazoNovember 29, 2011 at 6:15 PM
Four pillars of education
Learning to live together : People should learn to have values
since this will help us to live better among each other , living
with peace with each other no matter to what levels of society
we belong to accepting each other as we are . And as I think
we all want to have a honest political system in our country.
With the concept of learning to live together is expected to
overcome various conflicts that happen in society as I said
before learning to live our differences in many cultures that we
may have to deal and learn about them. Learning to be Have
social skills to enable individuals to develop the more we can
mentally and physically getting to be a complete person.
Because knowing the weaknesses and strengths to build us a
whole person continuously. Learning to know Acquire all tools
we have around us learning everything we can in the world and
 provide an appropriate and adequate foundation for future
learning. Learning how to learn, making sure how can we know
and learn. Because of the opportunity to work in specific areas
that continue to develop with changes in science and
technology. Learning to do having imagination is very important
also having initiative. Is very important to achieve experience
practicing the activity we like to acquire all the knowledge we
can.
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Carlos MaldonadoNovember 29, 2011 at 7:06 PM

Actually the world is changing so it is necessary for people to

understand with each other. It is important for people not only to
understand with each other, but also to interchange ideas in a
peaceful way and live in harmony. Today is a lack of values that
is not permitting human beings to live peacefully and with joy,
so is very important the instruction of the four pillars of
education in order to gain it.
The four pillars of education are important and necessary to
acquire knowledge and obtain values lost in society by the
uncontrolled enlargement of the world. I agree that the pillar
“Learning to live together” is fundamental to gain values for
living in peace and in harmony, because it develops the
understanding of others and their history, traditions, religion etc.
Basically on this pillar people learn to tolerate people and to
respect others doesn´t matter their traditions, celebrations,
beliefs, and thoughts. But to get this pillar we need to go
through the others three pillars because they sustain the pillar
of learning to live together.
In my opinion the base for all the pillars is the pillar “Learning to
know”. This pillar basically introduces all what people need to
know in order to grow and live in this world with so many
changes and challenges. The other two pillars “Learning to do”
and “Learning to be” are also important for the search of peace
and harmony between all the people. The first that is related to
work and the second one to the accomplishment of goals are
topics that actually are relevant for having people to have
 success and to live peacefully.
In the role as teachers these for pillars are very important
because it focus us to teach our students how to behave with
others and to tolerate others. Also the way how goals can be
achieve and to accomplish work as an individual an as a group.
I consider that some of these pillars are introduced first of all at
home but can be reinforced at school. So we have a great labor
to accomplish with our students wihch is not easy.
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Loyda RocioNovember 30, 2011 at 12:39 PM

I believe that each one of the four pillars of education is related

and that one couldn’t happen without the other. They begin
when we are just babies, we need to learn to live with others,
starting at home with our family and as we get older we have
the need to learn to live with others in different circumstances,
as we begin school, we spend around 7 hours with our
classmates. As we get to know ourselves we also learn to be,
we are able to affront our weaknesses and make our best with
our abilities, if I have trouble with my spelling words I study
more and if I’m good at math I would probably just do a couple
of exercises , learning how to know and how to learn are really
related to learning to be, I think that is the base of everything, if
we are able to learn to be, we will be able to accept ourselves
and others, as Carlos said. As human beings it may take a
while for some to have a well establish foundation of the four
pillars, once we have it, it will probably be easier to understand
why I understand better if I read out loud and why my friend
needs a quiet room. Experience, maturity and certain situations
that we may go through may help us, our students and
everyone we know learn to live with others, learn to be, learn
how to know and how to learn. As teachers we need to guide
our students through the four pillars, we must remember that
they will help them through life.
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 Patricia GutierrezNovember 30, 2011 at 7:40 PM

The 4 pillars of education are important to take in account in

order to give the essential tools to our student’s needs to
develop and growth in this demanding society. Learning to
know is the teaching that comes from our childhood the
teaching from ours parent and us as teacher. That’s why is
important that what we teach is fundamental of the
development of its deductive and inductive reasoning and the
increasing of its memory skills. learning to live together is no
more than teach tolerance and acceptance to other culture,
races or religion follower to our students and a good way to this
this is putting together to work in a group in order to obtain the
goal and at the same time they would learn more about
themselves, its culture, religion. Learning to do in this world that
the most important is technology we have to learn to adapt and
apply our knowledge in order to get more benefits of this boom
For us more easily to continue doing the same thing in the
same way and not experience to do it in a easily way that would
encourage our ability to experiment and learn more when we
affront a unknown thing that is what we have to teach to our
child’s no to be to afraid to encourage unknown things.
Learning to be this is important because we have to help each
child to develop its own personality, we have to guide and give
the important and essential tools that they are going to use in
their development as a professional person in all aspects
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Lourdes MacíasDecember 1, 2011 at 8:21 AM

*Learning to know: First we as teachers need to learn to

understand the world around, and feel the desire to explore
more, and research etc. so that our intellectual curiosity starts
growing, once curiosity grows that desire to explore take us to
develop our creativity thru the analysis and reasoning and
pondering on a matter or something that we have started to
know. How may we develop more these senses of intellectual
curiosity, creativity and analysis in us and in the students, there
are many chances some of which I have experienced as a
 student, some could be by applying games, visits, trips,
practical works and investigations to enrich our lives as
teachers and enlighten and enrich the lives of our students to
help them be well prepared to face the changes of the
professional and personal life. Learning to do: To develop the
talent to be competitive which can be in specific areas, this
includes learn to work in teams where we can learn from other
teachers skills of communication, teaching, teambuilding,
problem solving, dealing with difficult parents or students,
service etc., shaping us better for the future. *Learning to live
together: As teachers we are also responsible to help our
students to develop empathy among them so that they can
always show a positive attitude towards others, this will help
them to be prepared for the future to have good interpersonal
relations. *Learning to be: Is also our duty to help students to
discover and make them to realize who they are and how
important and special beings they are, so that they will value
themselves, they will value other members of their family and
will also be good citizens as they value any person in the
society.
As teachers I think we need to be the best examples of living
this, at school and wherever we are, not only when students are
in front, we need to learn to be, we are teachers, but sometimes
we teach this kind of things better by example than by theory,
what I mean is that we need to live what we teach. As we try
our best in applying this four pillars, which I have found are
fundamental for teachers to know, I think and feel that we will
prepare the best citizens, persons and professionals of the
world. As we see the newspaper or whenever we look for a job,
we can see that these 4 pillars are consider, not exactly with
the same names, but they are required.
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Diana MezaDecember 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM

As educators it is our duty to prepare our students for life,

providing them with the skills and tools they will need to
hopefully succeed in everything they do. These skills cannot be
narrowed down to the knowledge they might get from books.
We need methods to teach them to encounter different
situations in life, situations that might not be in any lesson the
classroom might provide. Our society is growing into a larger
scale, we are a “global community”, and this community is
demanding more from us than it ever did before. “Teach them
for life” that is what we should be doing and what many
educators believe is the way to go. UNESCO identifies four
pillars of education as the key for our young generation.
Children should learn to be, learning to know, to live together
and learn to do. By learning to be students are expected to get
to know themselves in a way where they can bring about the
best from within and work their way into becoming better
human beings. Learning to know will help us understand what
we need to learn and keep our knowledge up-to-date with such
a changing technology. Learning to live together nowadays is
one of the most important aspects in our society; we need to
learn to accept, respect and embrace differences regardless of
gender, ethnicity, etc. We also need to learn to resolve and
avoid conflict. Learning to do is the skill that helps us be the
best that we can be at what we do, learning to do it well and to
precisely know the steps to make it.
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Martha SandovalDecember 1, 2011 at 3:50 PM
When referring to education it is always important to keep in
mind this changing world we live in. Sometimes we might think
that we have learned enough, but there are things we have to
keep on learning throughout our lives. Learning is a continuous
process that takes place, I think, for as long as we live, we
 never stop learning so it is very important that we know how to
learn. This particular aspect of our education has to do with
another pillar of education, learning to know, since “laying the
foundations for learning throughout life”, gives us the basis for
life, knowing that learning is an ongoing process. Learning to do
is also very important because we need to be able to know how
to do things, being able to make difficult decisions, and also
being able to work closely with others, and I agree that some of
this aspects we learn as students, it is very hard sometimes to
learn them as adults. But for all this to work we have to learn to
be. None of the pillars will have a purpose if we don’t learn how
to be, know what we, as individuals are capable of doing. It is
important to know how high we can fly. It is also important to
know that this world is made up of different kinds of people and
that we need to respect one another no matter what differences
we might have, this also is part of education.
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evelyn suazoDecember 1, 2011 at 7:38 PM

How are these four pillars related to our role as teachers in our
attempt to educate others?
The role of the teacher is understanding students’ needs, and
engaging them in their learning experiences The four pillars talk
about the different needs students have in this new century and
how we can help them develop into citizens that can learn to be
individuals and still live in a society.
In learning to know let us know that we don´t need to forget the
basic of learning that is memorisation and concentration.
In Learning to do students they don´t need to have phisical
abilities because most of the work is intelectual and be creative.
In learning to live together well we live in a society that is
become very violent. Then we need to start changing the
society from scratch that is with new student. We need to teach
them to live in peace and harmony and respect others
individualities.
In learning to be my favorite one because I can still have my
own individuality and still live in this new society without hurting
 other peoples feeling and be as creative as I wish.
The four pillars I see them basically with some of Confucius
way of living in witch you can be yourself and still live in society
as long as you respect other peoples ideas and creativity.
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Gisselle PadillaDecember 1, 2011 at 8:22 PM

As Educators and as part of a society we need to combine

these four to be better as teachers as well as human being.
Learning to know means to acquire al instruments or tools for
comprehension, it involves pure knowledge for present and the
future application; it implies of knowing your surroundings.
Memory and Concentration are important skills to develop in
order to achieve this important pillar of education. The process
of learning to think is one of the most difficult objectives of
education since it involves one’s capability intelligence,
knowledge, develop skills and environment.
Learning to do is putting into practice what you have learn or
pure knowledge in application with your thinking skills like what
you can synthesis, memorize etc. Also is to be able to influence
the own environment, Training the human being to face an
amount of interactions and have a team work attitude. This
means that learning to do will develop the professional
qualification for the world competence. Remember that
personal competence are based on a body of theoretical and
practical knowledge combined with personal dynamism and
good problem-solving, decision-making, innovative and team
skills.
Learning to be together it means to participate and cooperate
with others, in this pillar education plays an important role
because it will make the difference between doing the right
thing and the wrong, when the human being is able to
understand diversity and to be tolerance with others. This in this
point is where we make the difference, also this approach
should make us get involve in social activities like charity ect.
Learning to be it means the development of our own
personality, self-criticism and self –control I can say that
 learning to be is learning how to be a human being. in this pillar
I understand that is the acquisition of skills, knowledge, values
ect. With this we get to a complete fulfillment of a human.
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Marta Leon GomezDecember 1, 2011 at 8:40 PM

After reading this document I got to the conclusion that all four
pillars are important none by itself could make education
complete. Each of them complement each other, just like in
society everything is connected or like parents depends on
teachers to help them complement their child education. As a
parent and teacher I believe it is responsibility of the parents to
stimulate our baby at home and begin with the process of
showing him the world and make him curious about what
happens around. This will help him with its concentration skills
and ability to think. On the other hand when a child has the
opportunity of going to school is exposed to interact with other
kids and adults, which is very important for their personal
relationships. In this same process children are ask to
accomplish different activities and should be able to follow
instruction and make their best effort. As the document said
learning to do will prepare them for different tasks in their future
life and will also help them learn from their mistakes. As parents
and teacher we can leave footprints in a child by helping them
understand themselves, promote self confidence, independent
thinking in social experience. All this aspects are included in the
process of education and are extremely important to
accomplish the goal of learning at a higher level.
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Steph SuazoDecember 1, 2011 at 8:45 PM

The four pillars of education, I think that they all are linked
together because as teacher we have to know our students,
their environment, how they learn, knowing how to teach and
the most important thing is to prepare our students for the world
 outside, that they could have the tools and skills to be
successful in their life. The first pillar is learning to know, is a
type of learning that develops one’s concentration, memory
skills and the ability to think. The second pillar is learning to do,
is to give meaningful knowledge, skills and tools to equip
students to do the best of themselves for their future. The third
pillar is learning to live together, in our present, violence often
dominates life. We have to teach values, humans diversity,
respecting difference opinions or ways of thinking and to
dialogue for resolving conflicts. The last pillar is learning to be,
education should contribute to every person’s complete
development, is personality training; education should be
individualized process and making a balance at the same time
with interactive social experience. Concerning in developing
imagination and creativity. To complete fulfillment of a person in
all richness of his/her personality as an individual, member of a
family, citizen, producer and creative dreamer.
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Nydia LopezDecember 1, 2011 at 9:04 PM
In today’s turmoil of a world, we’ve come to realize that
education needs to evolve in order to face the challenges of this
ever-changing society. Endless issues like the labor market,
economy, global-warming, religion, politics and so forth are just
a tidbit of what we are forced to deal with and handle as part of
our daily life. Learning to live together is fundamental due to the
prior fact, we need to “learn” to be tolerant and to accept
differences in any way shape or form, in fact learn to see them
as enriching. We must learn and appreciate our world, our
communities, and surroundings, learn from our history and
really attain the message of past glories or ancient conflicts.
Why? Because we must never forget which mistakes have led
us to our current triumph or failure. Once I read in the
Holocaust Memorial Museum the following, “Never forget, never
again”. That phrase stuck to me, it made me think that to avoid
making the same mistakes of intolerance we MUST NOT forget
about them. Contemporary society is pushing us to become
 “life-long” learners, if we stop looking for knowledge and
information we will eventually be left behind. Surfing the rough
waters of the world requires us to grab ahold of everything we
know and apply it to whatever context we are set in. If we don’t
, the riptides will undoubtedly part with us. Nothing is exclusive
of a subject matter anymore, we need to be ready to walk down
any path we encounter putting every bit we know to make it
work to our benefit, but moreover to the benefit of mankind. We
must find that motivation within to explore and strengthen all
our potentials and use them as tools to accomplish success not
only as human beings, but as a member of a global community.
We must learn to be. The connection tour teaching role, if we,
the adults must comply with all of the above, it is our duty to
enable our students to function in such a world. Provide them
with the opportunities to learn the skills they require to perform
successfully in a world that twists and turns dramatically.
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Karen ColomerDecember 1, 2011 at 9:16 PM

In what refers to education we must take into consideration

what surrounds us, firs of all The Society which is becoming
hard so we must keep in constant learning day by day. No
matter our age or our condition, we must focus every time on
education which is constantly changing, and for that the 4
pillars of education must go hand by hand because one leads
another, but it is important to begin with ourselves applying the
four pillars in our daily life, cause education takes a place in our
life in a different way at a different time, but without the four
pillars education won’t be complete, it shall be as everything
common sense (which sometimes we don’t use) we are
¨Learning to know¨ ¨Learning to do¨ ¨ Learning to live together¨ ¨
learning to be¨ we shall apply them in our daily life as teachers,
parents… and guide our students through them.
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karla RodriguezDecember 1, 2011 at 9:27 PM
The Four Pillars of the Education
The process of learning really implies several stages in our
lives, it all matters, where we live, who do we live with, and
what do we do. It also involves every person around us,
teacher, parents, family, etc… In order to successfully integrate
everything that is important in education the UNESCO suggests
four pillars; they are: learning to know, learning to do, learning
to live together and learning to be.
Though out our lives we can see the importance of memory skill
and the ability to think critically because life is about taking
decisions, these skills form the base for learning to know. As
teachers, we can make a difference in our society if we teach
these two skills in different ways in order to make learning an
enjoyable process for our students. Whatever we do with our
children it endures for life!
Education must be useful to our students in the most practical
sense possible. In learning to do we must teach what is
absolutely necessary for success in the current times and
elaborate from there when possible. This means that the
teaching curricula and didactics must evolve at the same pace
of changes in society and all of its elements like the economy,
politics, etc…
The education tasks involve all aspects in our environment.
Sometimes we may ask ourselves why other countries have
faster development experiences than others, well the answer is
education. In learning to live together students must learn to
understand other cultures, customs, ways of living, needs,
etc… Though this pillar in education, people will be more
tolerant and avoid conflicts which are two essential conditions
for peace and progress.
I think, we all deserve the opportunity to learn, to enhance our
talents, every children and young person should be offered
every opportunity to be artistic, scientific, cultural or for social
discovery and experimentation. The feeling of successful,
achievement and development is paramount in the life of a
human being and if we can achieve it through education, this
could be a tremendous incentive for individual achievement and
consequently collective progress.
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Ana Valeria GamezDecember 1, 2011 at 10:16 PM

I believe that as educators we must stick to those four pillars as

a feedback to our teaching philosophy. We must consider that
the world is constantly changing and new advances are arising,
we should prepare in order we enrich our students needs,
Learning to know, is just simply what we learn since we born,
our background knowledge which is important to learn different
things in which you make connections between what you
already know and what you are learning, as teachers we must
let our students know the purpose of learning new things and
what do we expect them to do, there comes the Learn to do,
which I consider that an essential part of the an educator is to
encourage their students to think how are they going to solve a
problem? How to create new things? And making the right
decisions for their life’s which is part of the Learning to be,
students must learn that not everybody has the same abilities
and that part of learning being an human is to accept others
differences. Teachers should give their students the feedback
and guidance that enables them to develop their abilities in
different situations, such as team work in which they also learn
how to deal, listen and respect others opinions in order they
learn to live together, cooperating and willing to help others . As
educators we have an enormous responsibility; teaching for life
and preparing the professionals that this world is requiring, so
we must not leave these pillars behind!
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Delmy ValladaresDecember 1, 2011 at 10:38 PM

As educators we are is very important to be aware of the four

most important pillars of education for different forms of skills
acquired in learning.
Four levels of education have been trying to adapt the world to
be people with the ability to live in a world with changing trends.
EDUCATION treasure within.
To fulfill the mission of education must be structured in four
fundamental ways of learning to achieve significant cognitive
development of each person (the four pillars of knowledge).
1.-Learning to know: Each person, understand the world around
him, so less likely to acquire domain knowledge to themselves
instruments of knowledge. Stresses the importance of research
and suggests that cooperation is made from. Elaborates on the
fact to learning emphasizing issues such as proposed selective
memory and associative, the attention of perception should
open and helpful in nature and thought from his perspective
that indicates deductive and inductive (concreteness and
abstraction). Finally note that the acquisition of knowledge is an
endless process that remains while experiencing life.

2 .- Learning to be: two questions arise teach how to practice

what you learned? And how to adapt teaching to the new world
of work? It is closely linked to vocational training, teaching
students how to implement their knowledge and adapt their
teaching to the labor market.

3 .- Learning to live together or live together: This learning is

undoubtedly the main premises of Education through the joint
participation of common life projects within the school
environment, community, family and peers.

4 .- Learning to be: I think the best way to summarize this

section is literally putting which is the fundamental principle of
this Commission of UNESCO: "Education should contribute to
the overall development of each person: body, mind,
intelligence, sensitivity , aesthetic sense, personal
responsibility, spirituality. All human beings must be able, in
particular through the education received in his youth, to
acquire an independent and critical thinking and to develop
their own views, to determine for themselves what to do in
different circumstances of life .
As education throughout life is based primarily on the four
pillars of knowledge: Learning to know, learning to do, learning
to live together and learning to be.
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JJLaraDecember 2, 2011 at 6:08 AM

Following with your discussion and comments, which are very

good, by the way, I must admit though, I ranked them. For me
number one is Learning to Be, I think it’s a tough one. We are
all born with a set of personality traits, talents, abilities, etc…
and sadly and more often than not, these qualities are lost
because of a lack of fortitude of character, discipline, intrinsic
motivation and high moral standards. Highly talented people,
both adults and even children, do not develop their full potential
because of it. How many times have we heard of very intelligent
and talented people of whom much is expected, and suddenly
they are caught up in vice and destructive behavior? I think one
of my jobs as a teacher is to nurture my students so they can
tap into themselves find their way and go and be the best they
can. I relate this very closely with learning to live together. We
have done this since the beginning but it seems that nowadays,
respect and harmony and justice is lacking in our societies,
which shows as that mere knowledge and technology is not the
answer to world problems necessarily.
With a sound basis on character and the compassion, then “the
mastery of learning tools” and “learning how to learn” (learning
to know) and the know how, (learning to do), should become
easier.
Am I really nurturing my students to help them develop their full
potential? Hmmm, tricky. Am I a learner and in this process
myself? I hope so.
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Ligia AguilarDecember 2, 2011 at 6:20 AM
Well done everybody!! I can see that you are taking the four
pillars seriously. Keep it up!
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 Janine IriasDecember 2, 2011 at 9:26 AM

The Four Pillars of Education

In my opinion these four pillars are essential in one´s life. I am
daring to use this word mostly because I think, and I am sure,
that if humans all around the world dare to work, think, and live
focusing in the four pillars of education life and the world would
give a drastic change for everyone, in a good way. Life would
be easier if racism stopped, if we could just see each other as a
whole, keeping in mind that no one is better than the other and
by working together, once the world is united, things would be
better. If this worked perfectly as described wars would come to
an end, and maybe we could even stop global warming and
have the world nice and neat for the upcoming generation. It all
starts by learning how to live together, if we could do this
without comparing your life with others´ this is when it will all
begin to work just right. Once your self-esteem is low and that
you can’t perform a specific task is when you begin to fail and
every little thing that surrounds you will come to an end as well.
If this happened, one of the pillars of education is not working,
“Learning to be”. Once one of the pillars begins to fail some
other will fail as well and so on until you have no pillars to look
out for, and life will be as it is. Life will be a race, a competition
with the rest of the world of who is better in life and not focusing
in having a better world, we will ruin it.
I consider that there should be a balance between the four
pillars, once you “Learn how to live together” in harmony now
you will be able to feel free and show what you can really do in
life and fight for your own goals and help others with their own.
When this happens you will feel confident that nothing is
impossible and that you can overpass any obstacle that life
brings to you. If you focus on the four pillars, the last but not
least pillar of education, “learning to know”, helps keep
everything straight. Everything that you have been doing will be
an experience; learning experience that will last throughout a
life time.
JANINE IRIAS(0801189808730)
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 Anna SabillónDecember 2, 2011 at 10:24 AM

Everybody should take in consideration what UNESCO has to

say in this report. Understanding the Four Pillars of Education
can make us become better people as well as improve our lives
as teachers. Being able to learn to know can help us gain a
deeper comprehension of the world that surrounds us, by
mastering learning tools, developing concentration, memory
skills and the ability to think. Human beings need all these to
solve problems, have abstract thoughts and to be capable of
combining deductive and inductive reasoning, so learning to do
won´t be so difficult. In these times the more we know the
better; but if we are not qualified to do things, it makes it almost
impossible to succeed. Occupational and skill training, personal
competence, social behavior, personal initiative, willingness to
take risks and group work abilities are as important and
necessary today. Having the conviction that learning to live
together will leave us a better world is essential and education
should be the best weapon for it, we should teach how to avoid
conflict or peacefully resolve it, even tough it is a difficult
challenge since competition, media exposure, the human ability
for self destruction and for overestimating our and other abilities
develop into tension between each other, rich and poor , young
and adults, black and white, we can teach empathy, human
rights, values to help our new generations discover each other
and to encourage them to get together in common projects for
common well. In order to learn to be, we as educators most
ensure personal resources and intellectual tools; although we
must also make sure people learn to enjoy freedom of thought,
judgment, feelings and imagination so we can contribute in
everybody´s development. Anna Sabillón
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Sandra WeberDecember 2, 2011 at 11:32 AM

Our rapidly dwindling world may seem as an enemy to most of

those whose passion is to aid and help those hungry vassals
with as much information, teaching them to learn throughout
their own lives. It has become my biggest ambition to be that
 individual with the power to lead extraordinary human beings no
matter their race, color, or social status and even their abilities
to express themselves. Nevertheless, there is always a need
for a guide to answer those inevitable questions of: “Why go to
school every day to gain information from teachers that is
available to most individuals with access to such information
through a mere technical apparatus?” My personal quest was
always to find an answer to my own purpose which was gained
through those individual whom I myself guide. Education is not
just a classroom; it is not just teachers or students. Education is
a community in and outside our classroom and nowadays our
city, country and even continent. As an educator I am that guide
which will lead, teach, and open every door to those who gain
knowledge from myself and history itself. The pillars serve as a
guide in reaching my goals. They guide in my own philosophy
of education that which will contribute to the society which my
students will inevitably confront in the long run. It is important
as educators to not just teach basic knowledge but enhance
student’s curiosity with research and experimentation. To help
them put what is learned into practice in a creative and
ingenious manner. The purpose of my existence in their lives is
to aid them in the understanding of themselves. It could be that
my mere existence is to guide my students in learning to live
together. Once they have an idea of who they are and what
they are capable they will figure out a way to manage the
inevitable conflicts of their society in a peaceful manner. I
believe that only teachers can enjoy the pillar of “learning to be”
for here is where the fruit of my work is revealed. It is in this
pillar where my own guidance shines with the brightest light. To
see my empty vassal filled with its OWN ideas, thoughts,
feelings and creativity. As educators we can never overlook
what is placed in our hands. We must have a clear idea of our
purpose that which is the production of effective citizens,
individuals with self-respect that contribute to their family,
community and country. The four pillars of education hold
everything together and enable students to learn to know, learn
to do, learn to live together and learn to be.
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 Alejandra Quesada LuqueDecember 2, 2011 at 1:30 PM

The four pillars are the basics of human knowledge. These

pillars are skills which need to be developed. Our responsibility
is to guide young minds through their growth so they can be
successful and be all they can be. If we can teach them down
to others correctly and with care, we will become better
teachers and better people as well. No human will know
everything but applying each and every one of these basic skills
will provide the tools necessary to live correctly and with
respect to others.
Learning to know stands for acquiring the knowledge we need
to reach our purpose and have a decent life. Learning to do is
learning to apply that knowledge the right way. Making it work
for the benefit of ourselves and others.
When learning to do we must respect others and that is when
learning to live together becomes important. We must use our
skills in what we do but we must also do it as a part of a
community. No one is capable of everything on their own and
we all need help.
Finally learning to be is learning how to grow in that community.
We must learn how to always keep cultivating our personalities
and our own thoughts and ideas. Having a critic mind and
distinguishing useful knowledge from a useless one is an
important part of this.
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Eva SánchezDecember 2, 2011 at 1:30 PM

Teachers should apply the four pillars of education to

everything they do. Making students get the tools to understand
and learn about their own world is a must, so they can analyze
it and discover its beauty. Learning to pay attention, use their
memory and have a critical thinking will be useful in their life.
Learning to do has a new meaning nowadays, since having
interpersonal skills, occupational training, and social behavior,
not just academic knowledge is necessary to achieve goals.
Teachers have to encourage team work, cooperative learning,
problem solving abilities, innovation and decision making as
 well as scientific knowledge to make sure that students will be
capable get in to the work force with all the tools they will need.
By teaching values, morality, discipline, love for their peers and
setting a good example we allow them to learn to live together.
If we guide them into understanding each other, treating them
as we would like to be treated and working together towards the
same goal they will learn to be agents of change as they
contribute to develop into people who have fair judgements,
critical thinking and a responsible for their own actions as for
the world they are living in.
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Edgardo RomeroDecember 2, 2011 at 2:09 PM

Being a teacher is a devotion not just an occupation, having the

four pillars of education as a guide for us to lead students into a
more peaceful and understanding world is a tool that we must
take advantage of. To be leaders or guides in children´s life
might be a difficult task; but if we manage to encourage them to
think, to analyze to have a better understanding of themselves
we can accomplish a lot. Encouraging students to influence
over their own life and the world they live in has to be our duty,
to let them realize that education is not just to get a job; but to
become better citizens, better human beings. If we can succeed
in these tasks we will be leaving, for the future to come, new
leaders with the ability to overcome any difficulty, who are fair
and have a critical and analytical point of view and are
responsible for their own acts, people who will get really
involved in their society and the way it develops. I believe that
education at all levels should be a holistic idea guided by
integrity, moral, values and as teachers we have to lead the
way to make these changes possible having the four pillars of
education as our guide.
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Ada MartinezDecember 2, 2011 at 6:36 PM
 First of all I must say that I feel grateful for my education, after
reading all the information about education itself I realized how
important it is for us, and I am not talking just about the
knowledge we acquire in school, but that we gain throughout
life. All the four learning pillars talk about how we gain
knowledge with experience and that technical definitions and
reactions we learn through a teacher; it is what we do for
success as a professional and personal life experience, it is
what we are , what we become after all the knowledge is drop
inside our minds.
After going throughout the pillars, I identify myself with
“Learning to Live”, having the ability to have our knowledge
model our character and who we are and how we react to
situations that are presents to us. Daily basis is the most
appreciated education we can have, it won`t matter if you have
gone through High school or college, having a master would we
abolished just having the adequate way to react to those
situations that represent a challenge in life.
As a teacher I must say, that we need to learn and engage all
these pillars as we guide others to find themselves in the world.
And the most important pillar to embrace as teachers must be
to teach “Learning to do” , we need to make students realize
they can do anything they want if they just try. Once they
acquire all the pillars and put them into practice, the world`s
doors will be open.
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Kennia FuentesDecember 2, 2011 at 6:42 PM
As educators I believe we have a huge commitment with our
students, we are able to touch our students´ lives, we can make
an impact on them, it is our duty to prepare them to face
everyday challenges, prepare them for life (Learning to be).
Here lies the foundation for true learning to take place, I believe
that in order for meaningful acquisition of knowledge, we have
to integrate the four pillars of education, one can´t be separated
from the other. As humans we are social beings, though at
times we might wander on our own, we need to have people to
 comfort us, support us, and why not, even people who inform
us of our shortcomings, we need to learn how to accept each
other, and respect the way other people think or feel, when we
assign group work this is one skill we are reinforcing, they might
have different opinions, but they need to learn how to
compromise (Learning to live together). We have to instruct
children to be able to discriminate information, the media offers
an infinite amount of information, however, not all information is
adequate, they must develop their own ideas and opinions
(Learning to know). Students have to use what they know in
order to decide how they will act.
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Elka MoncadaDecember 2, 2011 at 6:59 PM
This article refers specifically to our tasks and the way we learn,
I loved this article particularly because it specifies how we learn
from the world, from each other. It also defines how people
learn, the skill, the practicality, the way we interact and the way
we learn throughout life as it goes. It also made me think about
the way we teach our children, as educators we have to
remember that we all are integral beings; we have emotional
factors that control our learning skills, we have genetics and we
also have personality, which contribute to our daily learning
experience.
We also have to have in mind, that everybody learns in different
ways and that everything that surrounds us makes either a
positive or a negative impact in our life. The four pillars are
based in all of the aspects mentioned before, but I really think
that the most important aspect for a “successful” harmonious
social relationship with others is getting to know each other and
learning to know the people and every aspect of our
environment to understand the world around us. I also think that
kids learn to respect everybody else`s ideas, opinion; and to
teach tolerance and respect is a hard thing to do, especially
with teenagers in my personal experience. These type of things
need to be taught in a constant way, in a daily basis, since a
very early age; in order to be acquired.
 Finally, as teachers we should always have in mind that
children explore everything around them, and that they learn
something every day, either because they`ve been taught or by
experience.
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Joanna Vides CooperDecember 3, 2011 at 6:13 AM

When I read this article, I thought about the UNESCO did well
in establishing the four pillars of education because, It is
important to be detailed of what it means so people can act
responsible and can live a better life. This should be edited for
people to see daily so they can get the right picture. To share
the same world will only be easy if people start acting
responsibly and help together find solutions to day to day
problems. I find myself agreeing to this because, education
shouldn’t have a price, and it should be affordable for everyone
and not discriminate people, instead, encourage them to keep
educating themselves. Following these four Pillars of education,
we would be ensuring a good education on children and filled
with values which are the base core of all life. This provides an
opportunity for people with few or no formal educational
qualifications. Also, there is a growing trend among employers
to evaluate potential employees in terms of their personal
competence rather than certified skills which they see as
merely demonstrating the ability to perform specific physical
tasks through social behavior, personal initiative and a
willingness to take risks. From early childhood, it should focus
on the discovery of other people in the first stage of education.
Learning to do means, education with application, not theory
based.
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Katherine AgüeroDecember 3, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Learning to live together means to participate and cooperate
with the other people and I could understand that we need to
 strength our educational systems around many places, since
we live in a violent world. Learning to do means, to be able to
act creatively in one´s environment, it is education with
application, not theory based, you do hands on and
experiments. Learning to Be is education that allows students
to get to know their abilities, and feel free to be who they want
to be without feeling different among others, as well as letting
students to develop their personalities and act with great
autonomy, judgment and personal responsibility. Learning to
know is acquiring the instruments of knowledge, It is important
that students can achieve certain skills from each of the pillars
that can make them become better individuals and live in a
society. This means teachers, must commit on making students
to get involved on discovering each one as individuals. As
teachers we must get and include a small part of each of the
four pillars in our classrooms, to create an environment where
children can feel safe and comfort with their learning. It is in fact
important to conclude that no construction can be well done if
the basis or pillars are not strong enough to stand firm for long
time. Just as our kids need to have strong values and learning’s
on their first stages of life so when they grow up can become
better people for our world.
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Rosa Maria MaciasDecember 3, 2011 at 11:27 AM

Learning through practice .The 20th century had had a lot of

changes and increased the knowledge of all the people who are
open to learn and learning had become a way of life, because
life is just a workshop for all of us. This Commission had made
an emphasis on four pillars to describe the foundations of
education.
The first pillar is learning to know. Nowadays it is really
important the knowledge we get, according to the challenges
life is offering so many ways to progress, but it requires some
conditions, one is that we need to increase our knowledge
through a career or studying to learn to know how to do
something in a job
 The second is learning to do .through practice or working in
groups is a very good chance for students to learn, especially
because human been like competition and they usually try to do
their best, as if they got to win something, in that way they have
the chance to try out or develop their abilities and then they are
getting involved in their team at the same time they had
become part of it.
The third pillar is learning to be. : Our buried treasure must be
left untapped. memory, reasoning power, imagination, physical
ability, an esthetic sense, the aptitude to communicate with
others and the natural charisma of the group leader, which
again goes to prove the need for greater self-knowledge, we
can learn to be what we spect from ourselves only if we dig to
find our treasure developing or increasing our knowledge and
get our goals done. And even after this, we still need to be firm
on the learning process and open all those doors we still want
to open and continue learning every single day…
And the fourth is learning to live together: it’s really important to
learn to know the people around us try to understand them their
culture traditions and their spiritual values, it will help us to
accept their way of living and to use to them, face challenges
with enthusiasm and courage to get over any situation .being
positive thinking that we can do anything we want with Our
Heavenly Father´s help, recognizing his help in our life.
It is really important that we study to get to the practice and
then get the experience to be part of our life, we need to be
able to learn each day of our life and face all the challenges
that are in our way. Life is the better workshop for us but
without the knowledge we won’t learn as fast as we need. This
is the century of the changes and we need to be prepared for
all those changes.

ROSA MARIA MACIAS RAMIREZ Marymac

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Stephanie JalilDecember 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM
 These four pillars is the way teaching and learning becomes a
complete life lesson experience. How we as educators should
integrate every aspect in life, form values aside from the actual
content to be taught. We can work as guides or model to them
for a broad general education to give different learning
opportunities that will help us in the day by day experiences.
We help students know and understand that what we see of our
world is not even half of what it actually is. They need to know
that this world has it´s good and bad times, they need to live
this experiences that will help them mature and find their own
way of dealing with this issues. We as teachers can help as a
guide but we can´t explain this experience, is a life learning
lesson. But we can certainly be there to help and support. They
need to recognize that knowledge is attained but the way it´s
used or put on practice at the end is going to be up to them.
The existence of human diversity and how we need to respect
other people’s points of view and goals, because we all have
the same rights and freedom of speech, to know that probably
their goal is the same as someone else and that maybe this
person has actually putted more of a fight to obtain it, work in a
collaborative way to succeed, be more humanitarian, enrich
their relationships with other people. We as teachers can help
them love and engage their goals in order to obtain them. We
mark our students in every aspect, and by this we are part of
their future.
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Marcia JoanDecember 5, 2011 at 4:38 PM
The four pillars of education are related between each other.
We as teacher become a very important part of our students
life. We are a role model for them so we have to be a good
model for them. The first pillar talks about learning to know, is
about the knoweledge we get through life experiences and how
we react to each one. It helps us grow in a mature way. The
second pillar is learning to do, work as individuals and as a
group. Put all our knowledge and share it to make an important
influence in our world. The third pillar learning to be, respect all
way of thinking even if we dont support. We have a variety of
opinions and we have to work along. The fourth pillar, learning
to live together, is in my opinion the most problematic of the
pillars because of the variety of points of view and goals we all
humans have.We nned to get along and be respectfull, as
teachers we can influence in the most positive way to make a
better human beings. We must work along the four pillars and
emphasize every day!