WCCI - World Council for Curriculum, Bangkok, "Educating for Balance: Integrating Technology and the Human Spirit on a Global Scale

It gives me great pleasure to welcome such a large, distinguished and diverse international body of scholars and educators to this Ninth..

UNESCO is both proud and happy to be associated with this Conference in particular, and with the WCCI in general . an international NGO with an outstanding record and affiliate status with us.

I am personally honored and challenged to be invited as your opening keynote speaker, to provide you the keys, the initial thoughts, to unlock the doors to the many treasures and exciting insights and implications within the conference theme, which you have so wisely and appropriately chosen for yourself this week.

Not only have you chosen the theme so well, you have also picked a perfect time and place to discuss this theme. We are meeting at the end of the millenium, the last WCCI Triennial Conference of this century, and we are meeting in Thailand, an exciting laboratory of not only economic, but also social and educational developments that have taught them, and us, both what works and what does not work. I understand that many of you will have a chance to observe first hand the fruit of some of their educational efforts.

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