> School's purpose is not to teach obedience or even getting a job. It is there to teach us critical thinking, and consequently, how to be a good citizen.
That's an interesting use of "purpose". That isn't what our system was specifically designed for (Prussian system adopted by the US) by the people who designed it.
They wrote heavily about how well their new education system instilled obedience and created good soldiers and workers. They were very proud of these good outcomes.
It's also not the actual measured outcomes of our current system. Hell, "critical thinking" is explicitly excluded from the curriculum by a chunk of the US.
The use of "purpose" to mean "thing we want it to be" isn't a critical type of thinking.
That's an interesting use of "purpose". That isn't what our system was specifically designed for (Prussian system adopted by the US) by the people who designed it.
They wrote heavily about how well their new education system instilled obedience and created good soldiers and workers. They were very proud of these good outcomes.
It's also not the actual measured outcomes of our current system. Hell, "critical thinking" is explicitly excluded from the curriculum by a chunk of the US.
The use of "purpose" to mean "thing we want it to be" isn't a critical type of thinking.