That's not to say education is, directly, an evil. Yet it's certainly only a good, today, under limited conditions, and definitely a good of lesser value than popularly perceived.

I am actually a strong supporter of the concept of education. The problem as I see it with too many people in society today is that they are mentally conditioned to conflate the concept of education with the modern system of schooling, a situation recognized in earlier days of the present schooling system by Mark Twain when he said, "Don't let schooling interfere with your education." Education can encompass many methods and forms, and it need not be limited to specifically a classroom setting with textbooks and a captive audience listening to a combined lecturer andauthority figure who is solely in charge of the proceedings. This loaded mental baggage is what the majority of people in our society are conditioned to think of when the word "education" is mentioned to them, much as they are similarly conditioned to automatically think of sweat shops with putrid conditions whenever the general term "child labor" is mentioned to them, or very young children tied up and forced into sexual activity against their will and horribly tortured by nefarious adults whenever the term "CP" is mentioned in front of them.

Btw, I apologize for sometimes coming off as if I expect newbies to be familiar with facts and common tropes mentioned in numerous debates here through the years, but I am already regularly accused of making many of my posts too long as it is. I sometimes figure I'm not the only person here to mention these things to a newbie during any given week.