Don't Make War, Educate Instead
The amount of money needed to provide a year’s education to the 58 million out-of-school children worldwide, US$26 billion, is equivalent to what governments are currently spending on military operations in six days.
This is what Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Partnership for Education, told the 2014 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar, this week during a session on education financing.