Implications of lifelong learning on educational institutions

The necessity to cope with the rapid changes in science and technology in the 21st century and the necessity to adjust to theprerequisites of the knowledge society brought about the need for lifelong learning. Schools create lifelong learning societiesand in this sense their importance is not to be underestimated. The length and the quality of the education at educationalinstitutions assume a critical role for the ability and motivation which are targeted at prospective learning situations.Accordingly, the strategy of lifelong learning should also include school years. The aim of this study is, while taking the basicdifferences between educational perspective of the 20 st century and the concept of the lifelong learning in the 21st century, todisplay the changing function of educational institutions and the interaction between schools and lifelong learning with aconceptual analysis