In November 2010 the authors finished the writing of a manifesto for education. The manifesto was an attempt to respond to a number of issues concerning education, both in the field of educational research and in the wider socio-political environment. This is the text of that manifesto followed by two commentaries in which the authors try to highlight some of the reasons that have led to the writing of the manifesto, and in which an attempt is made to situate the manifesto in a number of discussions and debates.

How is it possible that bullying continues to be a common phenomenon in schools, despite the fact that so many teachers, students and parents, through diverse anti-bullying programs, have been engaged in trying to stop it? This question is addressed in this article through a philosophy of education-based analysis of the phenomenon of bullying. The article builds on results from two research projects financed by the Swedish Research Council, and offers a critical reading of the so-called norm-critical (Swedish normkritiska) approaches to bullying. As a result of the analysis made, the article shows how the inequality of the institution itself reproduces the conditions for bullying, and that in order to change those conditions, individual actors in the everyday life of schooling need to confirm their equality.