Because education is not just one of many priorities but the essence of a society, because it is the path to all the other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is essential to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. To work towards education for all is to wage a war against ignorance, against fear and disintegration … As education is the best lasting answer to the main problems our generation and our world are facing. But millions of children of school age around the world are out of school: 58 million do not attend primary school and 63 million are deprived of secondary education. Even though disparities are shrinking, girls are more concerned than boys. Much remains to be done to achieve the goal of education for all!

This is why access to education for all was at the heart of debates at the Convergences World Forum.