We might have hated all those lessons about A before E except after C, or cringed at our teachers showing us how to put a condom on a banana, but without them we would've been in a whole lot of trouble.

It may seem obvious, but it’s easy to forget that without education it’s unlikely we’d know what our rights are, when we were being ripped off or how to change our lives for the better.

67 million children - 60% of them girls - have no access to education. At all.

Find out more about ActionAid's work on the right to education

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