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The purpose of education is to give kids one.

Time and again, when it boils down to what parents want from school, one key finding emerges: They want their child to be happy. It’s a bittersweet outcome given the hand-wringing and pedagogical knots education gets itself into. If only children were happy… Perhaps the deeper meaning is a desire Read more

By Hamish, 2 monthsJuly 3, 2026 ago

Education

The Four Purposes of Education

“The only time my education was interrupted was while I was at school.” – Winston Churchill. If we asked children and adults what the point of school was, I predict we’d get some bewildered and some generic responses. There’d be the predictable, ‘to be literate’ (to learn to read and Read more

By Hamish, 6 yearsAugust 10, 2020 ago