purpose of education
... So, authorities establish formal education in order to produce doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, etc. ... However, are they still the most justified purposes of formal education now? ... Most of the new jobs they do will be outside the scope of todays education system and many of todays qualifications will be irrelevant or inadequate. How many leaders of any radically new development such as computers actually studied the historical development as part of their education? Most formal education deals with the past and the present, with research for the future being jealously segregated from the educational process. ... They no longer expect high education to equip them with life-long instrument, from which they can forever benefit.