in addition the rate of automation of jobs is steadily increasing in both high and lowwage countries the aim is no longer only to provide a basic education for all but to provide an education that will make it possible for everyone to become knowledge workers such education will need to build the very highlevel of skills required to solve complex problems never seen before to be creative to synthesise material from a wide variety of sources to see patterns in the information that computers cannot see to work with others in productive ways and to be able to both lead and to be a good team member when necessary this is what is required in todays flat world where all work that cannot be digitised automated and outsourced can be done by the most effective and competitive individuals enterprises or countries regardless of their location