This book challenges both the contemporary conception of education as being concerned only with skills, capacities and knowledge transference that contributes to economic growth, and the commodification of education and the conception of students as consumers. Drawing on classical accounts of wisdom from east and west, it argues for a re-conceptualisation of education as concerned with the formation of persons. It warns against the corruption of education through adopting the language of the neoliberal marketplace to describe teaching and learning, and shows how and why teaching and learning must concern itself with the pursuit of wisdom.