Abstract
The article is presenting a couple of rather skeptical viewpoints on the utility and adequacy of the notion of ›fragility‹ for educational theory, and especially the topic of ›Bildung‹. Processes of ›Bildung‹, it is argued, may be uncertain, fleeting, hard to begin and to maintain, but not fragile. In four chapters, the author focuses on aspects of understanding ›Bildung‹ mainly as a process of searching, and a most often dialectical venture to which many persons neither have access nor the willingness to engage with in their adolescence and early adulthood.