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The aim of the paper is to call attention to the opposition inherent in Hannah Arendt's work, and to demonstrate the relevance of the opposition for modern culture, education and pedagogical thought. Following Arendt, the authoress emphasizes on the constitutive colognes of human existence, life and the world, and traces the history of their complex relationship. Its history began at the end of antiquity, turning multifarious in the modern era having changed its character completely by now. The paper is concluded with a reference to the crisis of culture, due to the privileged status of life at the price of worldliness. Obviously, the crisis has also affected education. It turns out, however, that the education, specifically understood, may be not only subject to the crisis but also a chance for its overcoming.