Ensuring every child gets a good education is the “civil rights struggle of our generation”, United Nations education envoy Gordon Brown said on Friday ahead of launching a plan for the largest educational expansion in history.
Education not only provides children with a route out of poverty but also guards against the spread of extremism, the former British prime minister said as he called for a massive increase in investment.
“We will be betraying half our future if we do not take action,” he told a media briefing at the United Nations.
Good education should be the constitutional right. Every new born child must be provide with this right regardless of her household income position. When we educate our children, we are educating our future destination