The schools and the universities must be committed to excellence in education , without weakening the obligations towards the less gifted . There must neither be an overemphasis in favour of the elitist few , nor a surrender to mediocrity . There can only be one standard of excellence for all ; we cannot have different standards for different population groups . A single standard of excellence does not mean uniformity of learning or a single curriculum . It lies in the nature of individualized learning that there will be varying levels of advance by the learners , a variety of learning enterprises and a diversity of syllabuses . However , for every subject and for every level there should be maximally high standards , with but one standard of excellence for every area of learning . Achievements in education are , in our time , often measured by counting the number of facts which the student has memorized . In a learning system , the emphasis would shift from testing knowledge to testin...
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