What is the main purpose of education?

[Citizen James]

Inspiration:

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Indoctrination:

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Incarceration

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[k-onmmunist]

Option 1.

Also, LOL at Option 4.

[John Dibble]

I voted option 4. Trying to have pudding when you don't want to eat yer meat is a problem we all face at some time or another - in fact, learning how to do just that is the entire reason I bothered going to school at all. I assume that everyone else feels the same.

After years of diligent study, I determined that by cleverly hiding the meat in some fashion I could fool the teacher into thinking I had eaten it, thereby allowing me to proceed to have my pudding. In another fascinating discovery, I determined that by putting my meat on someone else's plate after they had finished eating theirs and happened not to be looking, it would make it look like they hadn't eaten their meat so the teacher would be inclined to give me that person's pudding as a means of punishing that person, thus giving me extra pudding. By my senior year of high school, I never had to eat my meat before having pudding.

This however left me woefully unprepared for college, where they didn't give a damn about whether you ate yer meat, or yer anything else for that matter, before having pudding. I think that this quite clearly shows how our public schools are failing to prepare our children for the real world. That said, I have come up with a rather bold solution to this problem - if school lunches were to consist entirely of pudding, we wouldn't have this problem. However, the hardliners will fight against this notion of course, and are already planning on requiring that the pudding be injected into the meat as a filling, thus making it literally impossible to have yer pudding without eating yer meat. I find this notion to troubling, and frankly not too appetizing either. In fact I think I just vomited in the back of my throat just a bit.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Are you asking what the main purpose of education should be, or what it is in today's society?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

You are acting as if there is a difference other than the mere verbal between the four (And yes, I like the fourth option the best).

[dead0man]

Option 4 (normal cool person answer)

[Associate Justice PiT]

     What it should be? Inspiration. What it is? Incarceration with a smaller amount of indoctrination.

[gregusodenus]

I voted option 4. Trying to have pudding when you don't want to eat yer meat is a problem we all face at some time or another - in fact, learning how to do just that is the entire reason I bothered going to school at all. I assume that everyone else feels the same.

After years of diligent study, I determined that by cleverly hiding the meat in some fashion I could fool the teacher into thinking I had eaten it, thereby allowing me to proceed to have my pudding. In another fascinating discovery, I determined that by putting my meat on someone else's plate after they had finished eating theirs and happened not to be looking, it would make it look like they hadn't eaten their meat so the teacher would be inclined to give me that person's pudding as a means of punishing that person, thus giving me extra pudding. By my senior year of high school, I never had to eat my meat before having pudding.

This however left me woefully unprepared for college, where they didn't give a damn about whether you ate yer meat, or yer anything else for that matter, before having pudding. I think that this quite clearly shows how our public schools are failing to prepare our children for the real world. That said, I have come up with a rather bold solution to this problem - if school lunches were to consist entirely of pudding, we wouldn't have this problem. However, the hardliners will fight against this notion of course, and are already planning on requiring that the pudding be injected into the meat as a filling, thus making it literally impossible to have yer pudding without eating yer meat. I find this notion to troubling, and frankly not too appetizing either. In fact I think I just vomited in the back of my throat just a bit.

I lost the real world connection in the last paragraph.

[phk]

Signaling to employers.

[Magic 8-Ball]

It's supposed to be for inspiration, but we've distorted it into being little more than a means to finding a job.

All in all, we're just bricks in the wall.

[opebo]

I find hypocrisy very enjoyable if all parties involved keep tongue in cheek.  In other words, I work at a university.

[John Dibble]

I voted option 4. Trying to have pudding when you don't want to eat yer meat is a problem we all face at some time or another - in fact, learning how to do just that is the entire reason I bothered going to school at all. I assume that everyone else feels the same.

After years of diligent study, I determined that by cleverly hiding the meat in some fashion I could fool the teacher into thinking I had eaten it, thereby allowing me to proceed to have my pudding. In another fascinating discovery, I determined that by putting my meat on someone else's plate after they had finished eating theirs and happened not to be looking, it would make it look like they hadn't eaten their meat so the teacher would be inclined to give me that person's pudding as a means of punishing that person, thus giving me extra pudding. By my senior year of high school, I never had to eat my meat before having pudding.

This however left me woefully unprepared for college, where they didn't give a damn about whether you ate yer meat, or yer anything else for that matter, before having pudding. I think that this quite clearly shows how our public schools are failing to prepare our children for the real world. That said, I have come up with a rather bold solution to this problem - if school lunches were to consist entirely of pudding, we wouldn't have this problem. However, the hardliners will fight against this notion of course, and are already planning on requiring that the pudding be injected into the meat as a filling, thus making it literally impossible to have yer pudding without eating yer meat. I find this notion to troubling, and frankly not too appetizing either. In fact I think I just vomited in the back of my throat just a bit.

I lost the real world connection in the last paragraph.

I looks like somebody never learned to have ther pudding without eating ther meat.

[CatoMinor]

Insperation

[gregusodenus]

I voted option 4. Trying to have pudding when you don't want to eat yer meat is a problem we all face at some time or another - in fact, learning how to do just that is the entire reason I bothered going to school at all. I assume that everyone else feels the same.

After years of diligent study, I determined that by cleverly hiding the meat in some fashion I could fool the teacher into thinking I had eaten it, thereby allowing me to proceed to have my pudding. In another fascinating discovery, I determined that by putting my meat on someone else's plate after they had finished eating theirs and happened not to be looking, it would make it look like they hadn't eaten their meat so the teacher would be inclined to give me that person's pudding as a means of punishing that person, thus giving me extra pudding. By my senior year of high school, I never had to eat my meat before having pudding.

This however left me woefully unprepared for college, where they didn't give a damn about whether you ate yer meat, or yer anything else for that matter, before having pudding. I think that this quite clearly shows how our public schools are failing to prepare our children for the real world. That said, I have come up with a rather bold solution to this problem - if school lunches were to consist entirely of pudding, we wouldn't have this problem. However, the hardliners will fight against this notion of course, and are already planning on requiring that the pudding be injected into the meat as a filling, thus making it literally impossible to have yer pudding without eating yer meat. I find this notion to troubling, and frankly not too appetizing either. In fact I think I just vomited in the back of my throat just a bit.

I lost the real world connection in the last paragraph.

I looks like somebody never learned to have ther pudding without eating ther meat.

I'm a vegetarian, so, literally, you're right. Figuratively, no, I learned to save the best for last and all other related lessons as a child.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You are acting as if there is a difference other than the mere verbal between the four (And yes, I like the fourth option the best).

Well, there are differences between them, but they're all part of the same package.

[John Dibble]

I'm a vegetarian, so, literally, you're right. Figuratively, no, I learned to save the best for last and all other related lessons as a child.

*sigh* It's a shame you never learned to be a free thinker. Another victim of public school indoctrination.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

You are acting as if there is a difference other than the mere verbal between the four (And yes, I like the fourth option the best).

Well, there are differences between them, but they're all part of the same package.

Yes but in effect....