This text proposes to reflect on the question of the responsibility of meaning and culture in a problematic world. How to assume this responsibility? We will first show that the question of meaning and culture has been and remains a central and critical issue of educational reform since the 1990s. We will then make some remarks on the hermeneutic philosophy and emphasize that responsibility for transmission can be based on a dense concept of culture. Finally, we will emphasize the political question which lies at the heart of the question of meaning and culture in the world today, for the world today.