The collage that begins this chapter—seen through a no-longer Bruneresque spiral that has lost its flexibility—questions the rigid dystopia that education will become if we continue in this inspection-metrics-development-driven culture, where the teacher is the all-seeing eye and learning is already dead for those skulls in rows at the back. Hostile, regulated and officious, like the call-centres that many classrooms and offices have become, it evokes Picasso’s rationale for collage over a hundred years ago, of ‘a world become strange and not reassuring’, and points to this chapter’s concern for how the artists Kurt Schwitters and Hannah Höch took up that strangeness to boldly question and think afresh—via collage—about what might be of value in a time of crisis. As a whole and fragmentary process par excellence, collage playfully invites the viewer to create verbal and visual links between an odd assortment of—in this case- skulls, an old office photograph, a baby being neurologically tested, print from a school reading scheme, a life drawing class mannequin, and a steel spiral.