Distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
it is a great honour and pleasure for me to talk to you today, a special day since it is my birthday, a special day since you have invited me to share my ideas and visions with you, all educational experts from quite a different region of the world, compared to that where I come from. But it is mostly relevant and necessary to exchange ideas and expertise, since what we are learning more and more today is that the world is a global village, that we all are connected into global systems, that we all together are children of that one and only mother earth, and only together can survive and develop
