进入21世纪,知识经济和科技水平的迅猛发展、“终身教育”和“学习型社会”理念的激荡,在很大程度上促进了终身学习理念的产生和发展。终身学习已成为21世纪的生存概念,正如1972年5月埃德加·富尔在向联合国教科文组织提交的《学会生存——教育世界的今天和明天》的报告书中指出的:“我们再也不能刻苦地一劳永逸地获取知识了,而是需要终身学习如何去建立一个不断演进的知识体系——‘学会生存’。人的生存是一个无止境的完善 In the 21st century, the rapid development of knowledge economy and science and technology, the agitation of ”lifelong education“ and ”learning society" promote the emergence and development of the concept of lifelong learning to a great extent. Lifelong learning has become the concept of existence in the twenty-first century. As Edarghoor stated in his report to the UNESCO Today and Tomorrow in the Living-Education World submitted to UNESCO in May 1972: Instead of hardworking to get knowledge once and for all, we need lifelong learning about how to build an evolving system of knowledge - ’learning to survive.’ Human existence is an endless perfection