(a) To recognize the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity and non-discrimination by making primary education compulsory and available free to all children, by ensuring that all children have access to education of good quality, as well as by making secondary education generally available and accessible to all, in particular by the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal opportunity and combating exclusion;
(a) 确认机会均等和无差别的教育权利，规定初等教育为所有儿童均应获得的免费义务教育，确保所有儿童均获得优质教育，特别是通过逐步实行免费教育，普遍提供且使所有人均可获得中学教育，同时铭记采取确保平等入学机会的特别措施，包括肯定行动，有助于实现机会均等和消除排斥现象；