Synopsis The book "Understanding Education : An Overview of Education is the result of authors unique experiment of teaching different papers to his M.Ed. and B.Ed. classes for more than 26 years.The author, in the beginning of every session, before teaching different papers allotted to him, used to devote at least seven or eight lectures to give an overview of education to his students. The authors found that these lectures helped the students understand the specific papers in a better way.The book has been divided into very comprehensive but comprehensible chapters covering various aspect of education. In this compact book of eight chapters, all the aspects of education are logically integrated to form One Unit, that will serve as a foundation for better understanding various papers of M.Ed. B.Ed and M.A. (Education) Courses.