Education is an important key to successful diabetes management. This applies to education of patients and also to training of the health care personnel to be efficient educators. Inspite of extensive efforts in this field , there are still strong evidences that current education programs were not quite successful to achieve the intended goals . . Such evidences come from the monitoring of high prevalence of uncontrolled diabetes , high frequency of unnecessary admissions to hospital and poor acquirements by patients of adequate knowledge and skills and appropriate attitudes. Among the causes of this unsatisfactory outcomes in education programs are the lack of professional expertise in educational methodology , in coordination of education programms , unclear objectives and lack of evaluation and accountability.In order to achieve the strongly needed success in education programs , careful planning of such programs should take in consideration : (1) Well defined objectives , with careful consideration for the basic needs and backgrounds of the learners, (2) adequate selection of the contents of the programs and the methods of delivery , and (3) adequate preparation of well trained educators who are not only knowledgeable about diabetes , but also capable of gaining interest and capturing attention of the learners . They should be able to promote knowledge , skills and favorable attitude at all levels i.e. from the one-to-one education, to leading of small group discussions or large group presentations , and up to confrontation with mass population through the media . This presentation throws some light on the essential landmarks for getting more successful outcome from education programs