This Philosophy of Education research paper focuses on Martin Heidegger’s thought, with particular reference to Being and Time (that can be understood as Being is Time), and concludes with an in-depth examination of the contribution that existential psychotherapy can make to pedagogical knowledge today. The aim is to enhance the power (the awareness of the absence of total control) that each person can have over his or her own destiny through being “present” and “in presence”, an ever-increasing responsibility for one’s own choices, the total assumption of responsibility for one’s own existence.