What is the Purpose of Education, K-12 and Higher?
Such a question. I looked into this question when I was asked to speak about public education before a group of young early-leader Dems. If you go back to the start of our country's history (even before we were a nation), it was about intellectual thought. Being able to read was the key factor. (The other key factor in public education? Local control but that's a subject for another day.) But, in the early days, it was for the landed gentry and their offspring. But naturally, as we became a nation, we grew but public education still wasn't for everyone. (Watch 12 Years a Slave and see the real and present danger of being enslaved and knowing how to read and write. That said, I wish this film had been more like the book which had a much fuller picture of the hero and what he did AFTER he was able to get away.) But business - ever wanting trained workers and that that meant those who could read and write - did want more "educ...