The purpose of education

According to Noam Chomski, there are two types of education. The first kind of education is related to the Enlightenment. It consists in the highest goal in life to inquire and create, search the riches of the past, try to internalize and help people how to learn on their own, the learner is you. The second kind of education is related to Indoctrination. From childhood young people have to be placed into a framework where they will follow orders that are quite explicit. Schools and universities had to increase measures toward more control, imposing  more debt to capture students into conformity.

By one side, when Noam Chomski talks about technology in education , he says that tech changes now come no where near the tech advances of a century ago. Technology is neutral. The information should be contrasted. In addition, You cannot expect someone to become a biologist by looking through the Internet so you have to be able to evaluate, interpret and understand.

By the other side, he says that if there is not a lively cultural and educational system which is geared toward encouraging creative exploration, independence of thought, willingness to cross frontiers, challenge accepted beliefs, you are not going to get the technology that is going to produce economic gain, not that this is the prime purpose of education. Sometimes a student studies very hard for a test and he does it very well, but the truth is that he or she does not understand nothing about the topic of the test. We have all had the experience of doing a test and forgetting everything two weeks later.

In short, teaching should be inspiring students to discover on their own, to challenge if they don't agree, to look for alternatives if they think there are better ones,etc. Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own because that is what you are going to do during your life, not just absorb materials given to you by the outside, and repeat it.