Third, education has been the traditional path out of exclusion and poverty. It will remain so. Two additional points must be made, for the future will be different from the present. First, the term exclusion implies and excluder. All too often, however, it is the norms of a milieu which traps its members, not the walls erected by those beyond.
Educational processes can offer insight and a broader perspective.
Such a project would, however, set out to breach the many inhibitions that the educational community has erected around the value of pluralism , ethnic and other forms of local identity. These would be less devalued, however, than set in their proper context. Second, there are many drivers towards increased levels of exclusion. Outsourcing that reaches to world markets places the locally-unproductive into direct competition with low wage areas. The knowledge economy will differentially reward the knowledgeable.