What’s the Purpose of Education?

What’s the Purpose of Education?

Abstract I have always defined the purpose of education as producing a ‘sustainable citizen’, someone who takes responsibility for themselves and thinks about contributing to solving problems, personal, local and global. Without getting too embroiled in semantic...
Is Education Fit for Purpose?

Is Education Fit for Purpose?

In order to answer the question ‘is education fit for purpose? we need to decide what that purpose is. In ‘Can education reform produce sustainable citizens’, I proposed that one objective of education is to produce sustainable citizens. A sustainable citizen is...