The article accepts as an assumption that we are facing serious difficulties in promoting and developing a convoy of citizens’ values that we consider necessary for living together in an open and pluralistic society. A society that has progressively placed almost all responsibility for the transmission of citizens’ values in the school institution. The school, however, does not appear to be capable of resolving this situation on its own, if there are no other educational agencies, especially the family. The authors’ view is that education, understood as a care procedure, although a necessary instrument, is insufficient to consolidate the civic behaviour of a democratic society. We are at the heart of the debate, suspicious in the time postmodern, from the boundaries of education in their role of promoting civic individuals. The predominant view of education as a mitigating and, in many cases, rectifying anomalous social situations is clearly proving to be insufficient. It is not very common in education to anticipate the everyday problems that society has of our time, but today we are not even arriving in time.