The report argued that choices about education were determined by choices about what kind of society we wished to live in. Beyond education’s immediate functionality, it considered the formation of the whole person to be an essential part of education’s purpose. The Delor's Report was aligned closely with the moral therefore its analysis and recommendations were more humanistic and less instrumental and market-driven than other education reform studies of the time. One of the most influential concepts of the 1996 Delor's Report was that of the four pillars of learning. Formal education, the report argued, tends to emphasise certain types of knowledge to the detriment of others that are essential to sustaining human development. 1. Learning to know – a broad general knowledge with the opportunity to work in depth on a small number of subjects. 2. Learning to do – to acquire not only occupational skills but also the competence to deal with many situations and to work in t...