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Gandhiji's educational philosophy, which evolved during his lifetime in the form of Gandhian School of educational thought, has not received adequate attention in policy formulations during last seven decades. Globally, it is being realized that his views were dynamic and futuristic in nature. Fully understanding inadequacies of our over dependence on the alien model of education and the needs of the weakest, the poorest and the neglected, he evolved an indigenous strategy to provide equality of opportunity and success to each and every individual of this category. NCTE lays great emphasis on the contribution of Indian educationists and thinkers and has undertaken a project to acquaint teacher educators with their thoughts. Since Gandhiji has written practically on every aspect of human life and his writings, particularly on education, are full of incisive insight, practical experiences and pragmatic foresight, I cherished the idea of having an anthology of his writings on Education compiled which I relish to present in the form of this book. It traces, in brief, Gandhiji's experiments in South Africa and in India and presents his thoughts on various stages of education, from pre-primary to higher education. Present this paper focuses on views and thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi ideology on sustainable education in global perspectives.