Ensuring literacy skills for all people will pave the way for every member of the society to participate in a range of learning opportunities throughout life.

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How we harness the power of online learning to advance our society is where we need to focus our efforts and not on the perpetuation of myths that will hold us back.

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Diminishing social mobility, the cult of the celebrity society, the decline in serious learning, the increasing disregard for empiricism and social attitudes verging on valuephobia threaten to cast a shadow on the enlightened western liberalism which has taken us so far.

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He is a co-author of three books on teams, including the best-selling, Self-Directed Work Teams: The New American Challenge In 2011 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Training and Development, their highest recognition for contributions to the workforce learning and development profession.

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Exclusion from contributing the learning acquired to thedevelopment of community and society.

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Therefore, I appeal to governments, NGOs and civil society to contribute to the improvement of our intercultural skills through the arts, sport, humanities and language learning and to enhance our diversity for the benefit of all.

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Dr Belton, who is an expert in the impact of emotions on behaviour and learning, said boredom could be an "uncomfortable feeling" and that society had "developed an expectation of being constantly occupied and constantly stimulated".

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