Study for What?

The Aim of Education

What is the aim of education? Depends on who you asked.

From what I interpreted from the speeches from the leaders,
their aim is to produce the right kind of manpower to meet the
needs of the economy. For e.g. if we are heading for biotechnology,
the schools will churn out more of such students.

If you asked the school principals, their aim is to focus on subjects where
their students can score well. Subjects like literature are hard to score.
So you don't see literature encouraged in schools.

If you asked the students, they say the aim is to pass the exam, score well
and get the paper. They say, "Don't teach me anything that will not come out
in the exam". They want to be exam smart.

Ask them who's who in the political arena, they don't know; they are not interested.
They don't want to know. It's not in their school syllabus.

If you think a school is for education, think again.