This chapter interrogates the fate of “live knowledge” in the present age marked by anti-education, disinformation, and generative artificial intelligence. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics and a Whiteheadian epistemology, I contend that emancipatory education, if it is to live up to what it advertises, must resist the cultural and technological forces that render knowledge inert, or “dead.” Tracing the mechanisms by which ideology, language, and technology shape both the production and subversion of knowledge, I argue that the principal task of education in the twenty-first century is to cultivate wisdom—the capacity to connect knowledge meaningfully and act ethically. Only through such an orientation can education fulfill its promise of emancipation. Overall, this chapter presents a set of theoretical categories to define the main problem that modern educators need to solve.