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What is the chief purpose of education today?

Is it to actually help children learn? Or is it just an elaborate means of social control designed to turn us all into factory workers, soldiers, and bureaucrats? Why does education seem hellbent on destroying every drop of a child's creativity by the sixth grade, or at least channeling it into "acceptable" forms? I would really like to know.

Public Comments

1. train one to: think logically, master skills needed for gainful employment, build character so as to make right choices. -signed, a Substitute Teacher (5+ years/SoCal)
2. No. It's just to keep them busy until they can be sent to their death in Iraq.
3. Education starts in the family, with values and the cosmovision of the world. Formal education starts in school, should take into consideration familiar values such as love, respect, dignity, dscipline. I will say there are many purposes of educational systems, one is to give the child the self confidence and also more independence to reach his or her potential, also to adapt to new environments and to learn to solve daily problems. The real educational system will allow the child to develop creativity, but of course some people think being creative means to destroy everything that is done to do something "new", creativity needs free will from the mind and spirit, but also needs some certain limitations, because the individual is limited and should have limits, social limits too.
4. The education you describe is a bad education. Unfortunately it does occur. A lot of the blame for that lies with the parents though. A good education opens a world of possibilities. It really is the gift that keeps on giving.
5. I think the meaning of education is sometimes lost. Having a good knowledge of education through my degree I think education has a long way to go before the actual purpose can be defined. Education should be all about the children, however there seems to be too much of a trend with schools being pushed by the Government to worry about statistics and National Averages. After the implementation of the NNS and NLS in the UK, the Government seemed to be placing all their efforts on to Numeracy and Literacy. Numeracy and Literacy are important and the basis of education but what about the Humanities, science and Sport, creative subjects like art where the children get to let their imaginations run wild. Teachers don't have enough time in the school week to fit in all the subjects that need to be covered. There needs to be a 'happy medium' where a child gets to be a child but still learn the things they need too.