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Discuss curmudgeon's answer to: What is the true goal of a child's education?

Is it to prepare them to be a productive worker, a valuable resource? Should it not teach them how to think independently and formulate, discover their own solutions and opinions? If you were educated ...

curmudgeon Answered:

Albertfrank, you said it quite well. My public education was pretty much worthless as far as teaching me about life and how to maneuver around in it. It is very narrow minded and directed towards attending college, which, obviously all the students are not suited for, nor able to afford.

Also, I found independent thought was something that was squelched, not fostered.