The book we introduce in this first chapter is not about tinkering, improving, or reforming education but clearing away the detritus of the school and using the space created to float, discuss, and explore some ideas for doing education differently. We invite you, as a reader, to think with us, against, beyond, and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult, and dangerous world we live in. A world of poly-crisis, specifically, a context created by the intertwining and interrelations of neoliberalism and the climate crisis—as what we call the ethics of extinction. That invitation means testing our limits, questioning and changing ourselves and thinking about the practice of education differently. This is an ‘experience‐book’ and an ‘experiment-book’ rather than a ‘truth‐book’ or ‘demonstration‐book’. For Foucault, an ‘experience book’ is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way (See O’Leary, T. Foucault and Fiction: The Experience Book. Continuum, 2009). We have tried to write a book that intends to ‘think otherwise’ about education and to explore possibilities that are foreign to our comfortable, familiar, commonplace ways of thinking and acting, and beyond the tyranny of alternatives.