Erotic Counter Education (ECE) is the educational position of the late Ilan Gur-Ze'ev. In ECE Gur-Ze'ev combines two opposing positions in the philosophy of education, one teleological and anti-utopian, the other teleological and utopian. In light of this unique combination, I ask what mediates between these two poles and suggest that the answer lies in the concept of eros. Following a preliminary presentation of the concept of eros in ECE, I define it as a form of transcendental cognition that distinguishes between "what is to be perceived", conceptual and human, and "what is not to be perceived", divine and absolute. I subsequently show how the "nature" of this conception of eros permits the establishment of a normative meta-theory of education that gains its strength from critical theory and counter education.