Importance of Education in Islam:

Education has alot of importance in Islam. The first verse revealed this in the Quran. God taught by the pen. He revealed the truth by the pen. Islam is a literature based religion. Islam is to be written about, read and thus taught to others. At the time of Prophet(SAW), the battle of BADR took place. The battle of badr was a defensive war for Muslims but the Muslims won and seventy men from the other group were taken prisoner. Those seventy prisoners of war were brought to Madinah. Those prisoners were clearly enemies of Muslims. At that time the people of Madinah were uneducated while that of Makkah were literate. So the prophet told each of the seventy Makkah prisoners to teach ten children of Madinah so this would serve as ransom for the prisoners. The enemy was asked to teach ten Muslims children. The enmity of these men was certain but still Prophet(SAW) was ready to take risk to set them free. The risk was that once they were set free they would organize again themselves to launch an attack. This was what happened and that was the first school in Islamic history established by Prophet(SAW)himself in Madinah. All its teachers were non Muslims and students were Muslims.

This shows how much importance Islam gives to the education.