If you want to give everyone an excellent education, you first need to re-define excellent education to mean something other than &quot;goes to school alongside the best or richest students&quot;<p>so... yeah, define education.<p>Personally, I think that you can trace the pace of technological advancement, starting with the printing press, and you can see that technological advancement exponentially growing, not because of any sort of formal education, but because things like the printing press (and now the internet) make access to information way cheaper.<p>Before the printing press, if you wanted to be a scientist,  you pretty much had to be born to a rich family, just to afford the books;   and then you had to have the interest and intelligence to do something with those books.   Now?  well, being rich still helps, but a simple internet connection gives you access to more scientific knowledge than you could possibly consume in a lifetime.<p>So... the result of this is the advancing pace of technological advancement, and personally, I think this will continue until everyone in the world has access to all the information they could want;  at that point?  personally, I believe that technological advances will increase at the speed we are able to augment human brains with technology.