This text studies and discusses the contemporary confrontation of school and family educational ethics in face of the challenge of mass individualization. A first part offers a brief overview of the main lines of force for families and schools to consider the singular challenges of education in a society of individuals. A second part examines the issues, conditions and consequences of a possible enrichment of professional teaching ethics, drawing on the source of the underlying ethics of liberal family education. Finally, we suggest that schools would benefit today from considering positively the contribution of inspirations from the democratic ethos of contemporary civil society.