{"id":8965,"date":"2020-07-28T05:38:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T09:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2021-04-19T20:44:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T00:44:25","slug":"purpose-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/education\/purpose-of-education.html","title":{"rendered":"Purpose of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve bought into the idea that education is about training and &#8220;success,&#8221; defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.<\/p>\n<p>We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.<\/p>\n<p>A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. ~ <strong>Chris Hedges<\/strong><br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- gpacalculator.org_responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\nstyle=\"display:block\"\ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4824650648966096\"\ndata-ad-slot=\"6964750147\"\ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve bought into the idea that education is about training and &#8220;success,&#8221; defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/education\/purpose-of-education.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purpose of Education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpacalculator.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}