Building off work by Aoki, Badiou, and Biesta, the authors explore two questions about the aims of schooling and purposes of education: What might be educational about education beyond its qualification and socialization functions? In what way might we arrange knowledge for the possibility for “event” to occur and a subsequent “truth process” to proceed? In response, the authors use the career of the band The Rolling Stones as an example of key terms further elaborated through a teaching experience of failure. They conclude with a rumination of why teachers require humility in what they explore as a teacher’s “invitation” to students to encounter curricular “events.”
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