The fact that so many children are cut off from education constitutes a clear failure on the part of the world’s governments, which promised in 2000, when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted, to ensure primary schooling for all children by 2015. To achieve this, it is not enough to enroll children in school; they must be kept there and provided a quality education.
这么多孩子无法接受教育显然是政府的失职，各国政府曾在2000年千年发展目标（MDGs）通过时承诺到2015年确保让所有孩子接受小学教育。要做到这一点仅仅让孩子入学是不够的；必须让孩子留在学校接受高质量教育。联合国教科文组织估计全世界至少有2.5亿小学适龄儿童无法读、写或完成最基本的算术题。