After reviewing three experiences of pedagogical or educational seduction, the term is defined as diversion, as in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. It is then described as evolving in three steps: that of provoking admiring astonishment, then the connivance between the master and the disciple, the former discovering from the latter not so much a fault as an aspiration similar to his or her own; the third step is that of conquered autonomy or alienation. Some fundamental issues of educational ethics will then be clarified by way of conclusion.