Putting education first is urgent in view of the scale of wasted talent and potential worldwide. Some 57 million children still do not go to school, 500 million girls will never finish the secondary education to which they are entitled, and 750 million adults remain illiterate.
从全世界的人才和潜力浪费角度规模看，把教育放在首位刻不容缓。有5700万儿童仍得不到教育，5亿女孩无法从她们获得了上学权利的中学毕业，7.5亿成年人属于文盲。