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It is attempted in this article to show that Ghazali's educational view is in coherence with his cosmological and anthropological views. In spite of his challenge to causal relations, Gahazali has no problem in his cosmology to accept a powerful and unique causal relation between God and the world. Human agency is also rejected in his view only when an autonomy is assumed for human being alongside God's will. Fitted to God's unique authority on the world, Ghazali takes nearness to God as the final goal of education. In educational principles too, he has provided a combination between God's impact on human world and the strivings of human beings. The principle of individual differences refers to the initial states that God provides people with. However, the principle of character education has an indication of educators' attempt to pave the way of education; as the principle of God-centered pragmatism refers to the attempt of pupils. The principle of self-monitoring refers at the same time to both pupils' attempts and their waiting to the coming of God's grace.