Educate to the future. Irony in complexity times

In the light of the socio-economic, cultural, political and health transformations of recent months, the paper re-evaluates the importance of an education that teaches how to deal with change through the adoption of new paradigms of thought capable of reading and understanding complexity. It is an essential challenge that can only be met by restoring centrality to education. It is necessary to start again from the idea of a new project for humanity and the citizenry so that we may open up to the future and the unexpected, and therefore relate to what we do not know, by first of all calling ourselves into question. From this point of view, irony is an important pedagogical and formative device to live in the postmodern, which requires the subject to have a global and complex vision of the problems in order to achieve new horizons of awareness.