The regional inequalities such as distribution of teachers and education for females are then reviewed. The section finishes with a discussion of progress in democratizing education around the world. The second section of Learning to Be deals with the research at the time, technological developments, future challenges, and goals. Here the notion of pedagogy is raised with the comment that it has become more scientific with all the linkages to psychology, linguistics, cybernetics and so on. Modern pedagogy, Faure suggests, reflects a notion of continuing education rather than initial training.
Radio is mentioned as one technology available in all countries at that time.
Computers are extolled as being a great asset both pedagogically and andragogically. This statement has certainly stood the test of time. What Faure and his commission recommended was a search for new educational order, specifically an order based on scientific and technological training. The latter components, says Faure, are essential to scientific humanism. Politics, in particular those of democracy, are noted as absent or minimal in some educational systems.