Education

[opebo]

I found only one stated reason apropos:

To teach students job specific skills for future employment

That would be true for any job, from dressmaker to physician.

Your response is quite correct for the working class, who under our system are doomed to a life of incessant servile toil.  Of course the scions of the owning class may be educated in hedonistic enjoyment of all that society's produce can provide!

[opebo]

Of course the scions of the owning class may be educated in hedonistic enjoyment of all that society's produce can provide!

You will come to a sticky end. Probably literally.

Life never ends well, Al.  That is perhaps its most important lesson.