<p>A recent question that has come to my mind. As students progress throughout their high school career, many focus on college selection. College represents a higher quality of education, but what exactly is education? What do you think the purpose of education is?</p>
<p>To create tomorrow’s workforce.</p>
<p>^ I agree!!! We are the future of the world and education plays an enormous part!!</p>
<p>So you think that the purpose of education is to keep an endless cycle of work going?</p>
<p>To teach and to learn?</p>
<p>Is that a question?</p>
<p>There’s no answer. I was curious about what people think education’s purpose is.</p>
<p>Education - humanity’s means of progression and betterment through understanding of the world and implementation of that understanding into practicality. </p>
<p>Boom. I took a philosophy class :)</p>
<p>What it should be: something that increased the knowledge and enlightenment of an individual and increases their ability to contribute to society</p>
<p>What it really is: working towards a piece of paper that allows us to gain employment.</p>
<p>So that one day I’ll be able to make sense of a world in which irrationality, despair, loneliness, and death are as conspicuous as birth, friendship, hope, and reason — on my own terms and with scientific rigor.</p>
<p>The purpose of education is to be on par with today’s world. Before the 20th century, a lot of people lived agrarian lives and really had no need to go to school for an education. Your education came from the farm and fields. In the modern era urbanization is dominant, so you need an education from schools to compete with other people if you live in a developed country. That’s the big idea: to compete.</p>
<p>In any instance, money.</p>
<p>To rise out of ignorance and realize that there are greater things out there than you and the events in your life.</p>
<p>To enlighten people of the world they live in and to make the ignorant aware of ways in which the world can be improved on.</p>
<p>From the individual perspective,</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Developing academic skills and personal passion,</p></li>
<li><p>Building capacity/skills for professional career and living well, and</p></li>
<li><p>Expanding aptitude for critical thinking and problem solving.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>IMO, to teach us about the world and how to be a productive part of it. So yeah, to create tomorrow’s workforce and keep everything in order.</p>
<p>So as to bring balance in the Bush/PAschal new world order. Too bring a power untold by the ancients stretching back from the early illuminati. </p>
<p>If you say I am not right</p>
<p>you are one of them</p>