Education is undeniably a potent tool for facilitating latent knowledge and development of skills. But more importantly, education has come to play a significant part in cultural re-orientation and social engineering. In this era of cultural integration and environment sensitization, education (and even more so environmental education) has come to play a central role in determining individual and group cultures (locally and internationally) and in their modification are they relate to the environment. These are the issues highlighted in this paper which examines the imperatives of environmental education for sustainable development in a constantly degrading environment.