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Discussed in this paper will be intercultural communication and its importance within education. Intercultural communication has many barriers and benefits and these will be reviewed as well as the role this type of communication plays in education. The ability to understand can have great consequences on how we live our lives. To achieve this it must be understood what is meant by communication and “because communication is part and parcel of being human, studying it can help us to understand it better” (Young & Lovat, 1988, p.5) Communication is the foundation of human contact. According to Cusworth (1998), “we are involved in it everyday of our lives. It is happening all the time and at a frenetic pace” (p. 179). This is especially true in an educational sense. Communication is a process we have been practicing since birth, whether verbally or non verbally. Young & Lovat (1988), suggest it requires “physical interaction, logicality (meaning whether or not the message received make sense) and interpreting by being able to ascertain the meaning behind the message” (p.12). The sender is the initiator of the message and as such is responsible for putting together the message and sending it in a way that can be conve