Education is in a state of flux, confusion, and without ultimate meaning because she is being controlled by the ideologies of postmodernism, humanism and tribalism. These arbitrary and competing "isms" have taken precedence because the queen of science has been dethroned in postmodern education.  The queen of science gives us a metanarrative, an answer to fundamental questions of meaning but she has been divorced from education leaving confusion and futility in its wake. The queen, however, is not dead.  She is very much alive and will bring ultimate meaning when her throne is acknowledged.