Abstract
For the past decades the global community has faced the set of challenges which forms the World's image today: climate change and scarce resources, growth of population and increasing disparities among people and countries, global financial crisis and escalation of conflicts. As a matter of fact, the 21st century with its modern technologies, progress and globalization still face the complications to react in time to complex and interconnected challenges occurred.
Education is an integral tool which we as society possess for rethinking our past, for reacting on challenges of present, for redirecting our paths towards future in order to achieve coherence and sustainability. The existing education systems and approach towards education per se do not always correspond to the needs of our society and has to be rethought with respect to enabling active participation and involvement of students in political and social spheres of life; has to initiate more responsible ways of thinking and behaving in everyday life and in the long-term perspective.
The author states that the education has the great capacity to face and to support the positive modern social, political and economic changes. However, in order to succeed we have to address and rethink the purpose of education and the responsibilities of people involved in the education process.