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The aim of the text is to present a new approach to knowledge and education in the context of postmodern cultural change. The latter is treated as an inspiring contribution to a search for alternatives to those caused by the monologue type of education. Considering the problem posed, several parts were isolated in the structure of the text. The first one comprises a synthetic perspective of J-F. Lyotard’s, M. Foucault’s, and J. Derrida’s views treated as a new interpretation of knowledge. The second part illustrates the mechanism of cultural transmission realized in the course of school education. The last part of the text is an attempt at a confrontation of the monistic image of the Polish school with a polyphonic version of contemporary culture and the manifestation of the resultant consequences for educational practice.