Just A Thought ~ WERE WE EVER TOLD THIS?

"Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue."

~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit ~

Have we understood the purpose of education? Has it ever been explained to us? To come at it in such a way as described above, we must backtrack very far, but is there any hope of doing this? Must it take earth-shaking events to wake us up to our mistakes?