The title incorporates the assumption that the 'human' in education is being threatened by
certain processes. The guiding questions are: What are these processes and what constitutes the
'human' in education? Which activities characteristically performed by human beings are so
central that they seem definitive of a life that is truly human and which changes or
transitions in educational thinking are compatible with the continued existence of a being as a
member of human kind and which are not? It is argued that the present debate on education is
still dominated by the language of performance and global economic comparison. Educational
practice must and will have to help the individual through a confluence of insights in his her
journey through life to form independent judgement.
