ABSTRACT
The aspirations put into education as a tool to shape the future are numerous. The Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is renowned for the way she puts forward education for all children as an antidote to ignorance and violence and as a powerful tool to create a better future. In this, she is not alone. Education is repeatedly presented as a means both to build peace (UNESCO 2016) as well as to achieve economic growth (OECD 2016). It is also represented as a way to achieve equality and to form a sustainable future. The aspirations for education are voiced by the subaltern people as well as those in the affluent and dominant economies. Opinions about how education practices should be performed and governed are formulated from all different political ideologies, from right-wing nationalists to left-wing radicals. This ubiquitous interest in education makes it clear that education is political, formed by politics, used by politics and producing politics.
