The Principle of Holistic Education and the Ideal of a Single Integrated Culture: Towards the Formation of an Approach

Abstract

The mission of the university will not only be the training of specialists, but also the formation of the outlines of a civilization which is to implement the principles and guidelines of the new environmental strategy. The university of the 21st century will take on new functions. It is noteworthy that in the late 30s of the 21st century there will be an impressive amount of people, whose purpose of activity will be the implementation of the co-evolution mode (industry and agriculture will employ about 8% of the population), being the sphere of the future management. They are to be really creative elite professionals. In these circumstances, the university education should be open enough, while narrow professionalization will be its termination. The system of university education these days shows a confrontation between the two educational civilizations/cultures: the humanitarian and scientific ones.