Education and Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development is one of the contemporary issues of the modern era. In present day there are so many problems arises in World such as illiteracy poverty hunger malnutrition epidemic violence narrow politics fascism racism terrorism ill-health loss of biodiversity deforestation climate change desertification global warming and so on. Scientists educationists philosophers environmentalists are very much concerned about those problems and try to find out the way of the solution of problem. Education for sustainable development is comprehensive ideas to acquire knowledge skill values and attitude to make world safer healthier and more prosperous. Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest well-known personalities of the world who focused on multi-purpose role of education which has been reflected in his thoughts ideologies poems songs drama and his institution Visva-Bharati. Tagore was very conscious about socio-cultural economic and environmental phenomena of living beings and he gave too much importance in the field of education.