Faced with a global change that is imposed on a humanity confronted with its own survival, the education system and art education must be reviewed. Recent evaluations of the system being unconvincing, this critical article offers other possibilities of evaluation to avoid wrong turns and better adapt education to contemporary challenges. It clarifies the terminology regarding the concept of art, then addresses the issues of evaluation related to education in the art of living, to the challenges of social distinction and symbolic violence, delusions of creativity and reality of education in the field.