世界发展研究所的陆亨俊认为:随着经济向信息化发展,教育问题、特别是信息教育已被认为是下世纪增加竞争力的关键因素。 97年初,克林顿在其连任美国总统后的第一份《国情咨文》中,大谈教育问题。他明确地说:“100多年前,我们从农场走向工厂,现在我们走向一个技术、信息和全球竞争的时代”。他说,在2000年以前,美国所有8岁以上儿童要都能独立读书写字,12岁 Lu Hengjun from the World Development Institute thinks: With the development of economy to informationization, education, especially information education, has been considered as the key factor to increase competitiveness in the next century. At the beginning of 1997, Clinton talked about education in his first State of the Union address after his re-election as president of the United States. He clearly said: “We moved from the farm to the factory more than 100 years ago and now we are moving toward an era of technology, information and global competition.” He said that by the year 2000, all children over the age of eight in the United States should be able to read and write independently, at the age of 12