Education is the Foundation of Social Progress

Education is the foundation of social progress. It’s the engine of decent work and prosperity. It forges lasting pathways to inclusion and equality — especially for women and girls. And education is the best poverty-fighting tool we have.

In short, education is the foundation of a renewed social contract, anchored in human rights, social justice and inclusion.
But the cracks in this vital foundation are becoming too large to ignore, and relentless pressures are making the gaps wider: the pressure of widening inequalities — within and among nations, the pressure of a polarized and divided world, where solidarity and solutions are in short supply, and the financial pressure of governments and global financial institutions unable to provide the level of support required to fund education systems that can reach every learner.

Education can be an engine of transformation for societies and economies, but only if we can repair the cracks in this vital foundation and strengthen education systems for the future.

We must repair the financing gap, the access gap – including the gender gap – the teacher gap, and the quality gap.

Here are my ideas on these areas of urgent repair to put quality education into the hands of every learner, and every community, in the world: https://lnkd.in/enAb98eJ