Fast food explored both as metaphor and social reality help us challenge the assumptions about education as a universal good transformed into a universal human right. Relations between education, development, and "one world" discourses expose the incommensurability of Western liberal ideals with diverse cosmo-visions now flourishing among innumerable grassroots cultures. Initiatives for learning and living that now marginalize markets, thereby regenerating common peoples' commons, are also explored in this article.