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This study intends to assess the constitutional provisions regarding education in six developing countries from three different continents-India and Sri Lanka from Asia; South Africa and Egypt from Africa; Brazil and Cuba from Latin America. As of 2011, out of 191 countries, more than 80 percent of constitutions guaranteed or aspired to protect the right to education and most of the constitutions introduced this concept after the global prioritization of education under the influence of World Conference on Education for All, 1990. From the study, it can be concluded, the countries having constitutional commitment regarding free and compulsory primary and secondary education have high enrolment rates and better quality of public education as compared to those which have constitutional commitment limited to only elementary education. The experience of comparative analysis of these constitutional provisions will be beneficial for the other developing countries especially when most of the countries are struggling to provide inclusive and equitable quality education to all.