"Quality education for all creates resilient and self-sustaining populations. The truth is, at present, 55% of the world’s children and adolescents lack minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics, and in Africa and South Asia it's over 80%. For women the picture is even worse. Of the 750 million adults who lack basic literacy, two-thirds are female"
— This month we talked all things education. Check out Future Thinking: Education.