Broad community involvement of this kind makes it possible for education to respond to the challenges it is facing and to be a binding factor in society. Education in place concerns all sectors of education, from primary to university education. Pupils take up a central role in 21st century education. This means that the education offered has to be varied and customised, because every pupil comes from a different social, cultural and intellectual background. Pupils furthermore differ as to the type of instructional method that is most appropriate for them.
Equality means doing justice to individual differences.
The type of education that is needed in order to be able to offer everyone an equal opportunity is not the same for everyone. Education should offer people optimum opportunities to fully develop their talents. Professional teachers will be responding to this even more than they are already doing today by offering their pupils and students customised education. Information and communication technology plays an important role in this. The quality of education in the Netherlands is on a par with that in the rest of Europe.