“Maybe, in the end, the purpose of school is to help our kids find their own sense of purpose. To prepare them for a life where they can set, and achieve, their own goals, not grind away to meet the needs of some bureaucrat or college admissions officer.”
Here is the full text of the paper with a lot of interesting comments.
Actually, this is the ultimate purpose of our platform: to help learners to learn, perform, plan and design different (societal, organizational, professional, learning) activities in their purposeful connection by themselves.
The New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about the Sundance-selection “Most Likely To Succeed” film, positing that the ultimate goal of school is to erect “cathedrals of knowledge and wisdom . . . based on the foundations of factual acquisition and cultural literacy.” He probably meant the same.