The Manifestations, Consequences, and Transcendence of the Nihilization of Modern Educational Values from the Perspective of the Will to Technology

The will to technology, centered on efficiency and control, emphasizes problem-solving and goal attainment, whereas educational values focus on human existence and lived experience. The tension between the two reveals the predicament of value nihilization in contemporary education under technological rationality, manifested in the dissolution of education's ultimate values, the obscuring of students' existential meaning, and the alienation of educational subjects' practical agency. In the digital in telligence age, the will to technology increasingly consolidates its dominance over educational operations, leading to the instrumentalization of educational processes, the utilitarian turn of educational aims, and the alienated existence of educational subjects. To address the challenges posed by the nihilization of educational values, school education should reconstruct ultimate concern to awaken spiritual self-awareness, reaffirm its human-development orientation to restore the essence of education, and reconstruct practical logic to revitalize the dynamism of life.