显然，问题不在于全球教育是否承担得起，而是美国和全世界是否能够忽略让全球目前约38,000万失学儿童接受教育所带来的政治、经济、社会和健康益处。
Clearly, the question is not whether universal education is affordable, but whether America and the world can afford to neglect the political, economic, social, and health benefits of educating the roughly 380 million children around the globe who currently do not attend school.