ABSTRACT
Education is experienced by parents and teachers, trainers, social pedagogues and pastoral counselors as difficult, particularly because they have little support in their surroundings by consistent, good life-forms and secure traditions of world-interpretation and morals. The slogan "end of education" is a flight of fancy that has little to do with reality. The fact is rather that today educational facilities, educational personnel and educational activities are far more numerous and widespread than ever before. We live in an "over-schooled" society, which is euphemistically also called an "educational society". Naturally one can lament that education has become more difficult, that too much bad education occurs, that some legal guardians are neglecting education, that the success of education is not commensurate with the expenditure of educational effort, etc. Anyone unfamiliar with the lamentable state of pedagogy will be astonished that professors of pedagogy draw on the slogan "end of education", even though from both an empirical and normative-legal perspective this is absurd.
