Directorate-General For Education and Culture (European Commission)

The Directorate-General for Education and Culture ("DG EAC")is a Directorate-General of the European Commission.

The Education and Culture Directorate-General’s mission has three main aspects:

  • Building a Europe of knowledge
  • Developing the European cultural area

DG EAC is currently divided into 5 "directorates":

  • Lifelong Learning, Education and Training Policies
  • Lifelong Learning, Education and Training Programmes and actions
  • Culture and Communication
  • Youth, Sport
  • Resources

It oversees the European Union's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, which handles most operational programmes on DG EAC's behalf.

It is under the political responsibility of Cypriot Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou.

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    Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls’ Nourishment.
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    Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted by audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator’s lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.
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