Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress in every society in .. every family.

The quote links three escalating ideas: knowledge confers capacity (“power”), information expands agency (“liberating”), and education is the durable social mechanism that produces both. Annan frames education not as a private good but as the basic condition (“premise”) for collective progress, from national institutions down to household life. The movement from “society” to “every family” underscores that development is built from the ground up: educated individuals make healthier, more economically secure choices, participate more fully in civic life, and transmit opportunity across generations. The rhetoric also implies a moral claim—denying education is a form of disempowerment.