Is it still possible to educate children? We increasingly doubt it—and we also sense that this is an unprecedented catastrophe. Ariane Bilheran returns here to what constitutes the pillars of education, in other words, the fundamental criteria of a civilized society.

How can we explain mass adherence to ideologies in totalitarian systems, and the irrational actions they command? More than ten years ago, in my business consulting work, I coined the notion of "delusional contagion" [1] for the literature on psychosocial risks and suffering at work.