Abstract
The author of the text assumes that education conceived as a training brings too much damage to the individual and collective life to come to terms with it. He argues that the radicalization of the discourse on reading practice is needed. It is neither about establishing any universal schemes for the reading practices, nor about basing them in the particular scientific disciplines or the theoretical currents. Rather, it is about that existential reading must become the life-giving foundation of thinking about education. Against this background, it becomes possible to join philology and critical pedagogy. Both perspectives can learn from each other for the sake of educational change.