Education helps an individual in making informed choices. It not only enhances knowledge and learning capabilities of an individual, but also plays a major role in fostering their personalities. Education and continuous learning enlightens the mind leading to continuous innovations and betterment of life. Unfortunately, access to education has often been restricted owing largely to prevailing class equations, economic power, class, race, caste, religion and gender. This paper looks into the politico-economy of denial of educational opportunities; factors hindering the access to education; and factors sustaining low enrolment and high dropout rates in schools in developing countries. For instance India, which is touted to have a very youthful population with an average of 29 years by 2020, has a very discouraging percentage of its population enrolling for education. Ignoring social and economic justice and focusing only on political justice would eventually result in the weakening and destruction of democratic structures as prophesied by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar during the constituent assembly debates. The paper attempts to correlate education and media, bearing in mind the latter's capacities of deeper impact and farfetched reach. The power of media and the educational structure when democratized could result in tremendous ramifications for the stakeholders, boosting social justice and equity. As there is a need to redefine the concept of social justice globally, this exploratory work critically evaluates global education keeping in view the concept of social justice.