Texts by Wilhelm von Humboldt, Theodor Adorno, and Konrad Paul Liessmann, initially published 1793, 1959, and 2006 respectively, and gathered in this volume follow the various shifts in education over the years. They suggest that the humanist basis of education intended to constitute a responsible citizen that draws on Greek culture has been brought to a close in the superficiality of contemporary society of knowledge incapable of critical thought. They draw a path from being who we are only when educated, through the watering-down of education through its mass institutionalization, to the societal expulsion of education taking place under the very guise of education. Theories of Bildung, specifically theories of its mutation, testify strongly to the historical transformation of its status, but also to the contradictions and paradoxes dwelling in hidden compartments of its very source.