A new social contract can only be established if citizens are capable of critical thinking, but a citizen is first and foremost a person, who must be socially and culturally empowered through systemic processes of education, based necessarily on equality of starting conditions, without which all discourses on merit are purely rhetorical: an education aimed toward the construction of a society conceived as a living organism, rather than a mechanism-society. If schools (which should be considered constitutional bodies) and universities are to rediscover their original functions as social elevators, if they are to succeed in inspiring a society that intends to eliminate asymmetry, they themselves must be the first to avoid delegating carte blanche to technology, which is “the Great Mistake”, as well as the first to avoid fostering a “culture of cunning”. Above all, they must activate a culture of responsibility, without which liberty cannot prevail; they must stimulate creative minds toward a kind of innovation that is cultural and inclusive—keeping in mind that innovating initially means destabilizing—and they must work actively to create elastic, open-minded, hybrid figures capable of building a genuine culture of complexity, and of healing the fractures between fields of knowledge.