A meditation on what a post-human education might look like: "Touching something beyond myself and time"

Two academics meditate on the state of education and seek wisdom from the poets and other creative writers to illuminate their unknowing. We acknowledge the growing disquiet that all lis not working well in education. Is the education on offer fit for purpose? Does it prepare students for a world of disappearing professions, spreading automation where the implication of the next disruption are unknown, unimaginable? Does it meet the urgen needs of the Anthropocene and of changing social structures of a post-human world? We sens the need to reconsider the contemporary everyday. We reach back to the past, to nature, to ground ourselves in the senses of what is real, and true, as a way to open a door to this unfathomable future. In doing so, we notice distinctions, boundaries and categories that trap us in the present, yet point to potential futures. In shining a light on these, we return to the conviction that a future education needs to be useful. An education of the future needds to return to the world and a natural order where we religquish our human dominance. We share the questions that arise out of our meditation on the challenges of an education of the future. We hope these questions will "stimulate, provoke, inform and inspire' others to collaborate on the answers.