The main purpose of public education is to create conformist, subservient, non-thinking indivuals who excel at following the orders handed down by management. It's a sad fact. Even more depressing, is that this situation is incapable of changing as long as we contiinue to operate under the current system of government.

Please check out John Taylor Gatto if you already haven't. He explains the true purspose and intention of public schooling with impeccable precision.