What is Education?

Session with Graham Allen, The Environmental manager of the University.
Sustainable Education 


Graham began his session by setting a research task; What is the definition of Sustainable Education, Brundtland 1987. After doing some research on this, I have found that their are many definitions and such of Sustainable Education, but the one that is mostly recognised from the Brundtland report.
As I was researching I found this; Our Common Future, Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development, where I found the quote: 

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:

the concept of needs, in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and

the idea of needs imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs."

Therefore, we must understand that the decisions that we make now, within Educational, Economic and Social prospects, will eventually have an affect on those in the future. There was a conference in Ontario back in 2007, to look back on the last 20 years of the affects of Sustainable Development in Canada since the publication of the 1987 Brudtland Report -  http://www.iisd.org/sd/#one

We then discussed that corporates responsibilities; Operations, Products or services. He mentioned that schools and other communities that are related in an educational aspect have a positive impact on societies.