Our rituals, behaviours and cultural artefacts today are shaped by hopes, dreams and values for the future – and yet our visions of the future are generated by the context of today. Those future visions are projected on to the majority by the privileged minority of today. The majority’s today is therefore shaped by the hopes, dreams and values of the privileged for the future. But those visions of the future are projections of absence, as well as of presence. In the same way that the stories we know affect our perceptions of human nature, civilisation and culture, so does the absence of certain stories, knowledge and insight. These inclusions and exclusions forever determine, and limit, what we think or believe to (have) be(en) possible. These erasures happen every day, and everywhere, including in education.