Learning and education is a matter of priority in any civilized society. Valluvar devotes three chapters to highlight the significance of learning. Besides emphasising positively on the necessity for learning, he projects the disgrace that the uneducated have to suffer. If a person happens to be an illiterate, he insists that the person should at least listen to the learned. The Ear that is shut to learning is as good as deaf. The same way, those who cannot use their eyes to read and learn, have only two sores on their faces and not eyes. The unlettered just 'exist', while the learned 'live'. Learning gives one a sense of belonging to every land and place by virtue of the respect and regard people give to the learned. Why, then, Valluvar asks, should anyone keep away from learning till the end of one's life?

The richness of thought reflects the maturity of the society in which Valluvar lived.