if Education is wrong

what is the underlying purpose of education:

• to instill cult like uniformity?
  
• to encourage independent thinking
• to prepare for a life time of work
• to understand how to work  in a social group or a family unit
• to learn a basic knowledge of current world concepts
• to think out of the box
• to build upon the thoughts of those who have gone before
• what is current education good at and what is it lacking
• why is classical education and reading a good idea
• should all persons be given the luxury of education
• is education something that should be deserved  or earned rather than force fed from childhood onwards?
• how to know what education a child will benefit from
• why is so much knowledge necessary
• who decides what a child should learn
• why is esoteric knowledge widely held a bad idea
• the importance of teaching unbiased history
• the role of ego in deciding what will be taught or not: the nation's ego, its leaders ego, the collective sense of shame in telling truth or lying about historical fact
• the ego's need for dynastic rule 
• the relevance of the ego in anything at all
• what would the world look like if it were to not exist