In an age where automation and AI are rapidly replacing human labor, the foundational contract of modern education—study hard, get a degree, find a job—is collapsing. This essay explores how education has become a symbolic system tied to recognition and status rather than real contribution, and why societies filled with highly educated but functionally unemployed individuals are facing a crisis of meaning. Drawing from Eidoist principles, it offers a bold vision for reimagining education in a post-work world: one rooted in presence, contribution, and structural form—not performance or prestige.
