This paper examines the crisis of the meaning of life (Frankl's „existential vacuum“) in the contemporary society with regard to quality of education. The existential vacuum, or the loss of general purpose, is discussed here as an absence, which is an expression derived from the Latin noun absentia. The term is generally used to describe physical absence (pupils, students, means, finances etc.) and often only refers to a specific kind of absence in the educational process. The morphological analysis of the Latin word comes from the verb “sisto,” indicating that some basic condition must be established in the first place, and then removed. Absence therefore implies on the first level a positive meaning for the explanation of the phenomenon of “absence”. The paper investigates the cause of the absence of purpose that gave rise to the modern secularized lonely man in the world, and hence also to the original crisis of education in the postmodern age.