I've been rolling around two questions: what is the real purpose of education, or the education system? And then, what is broken with it?

--- The above is the question I posed in Reddit earlier tonight, generating an interesting conversation IMO (linked below). I have been pondering how we can _really_ take what we have seen with MOOCs and transform education.

I'm going to keep my views to myself for the moment. There's a big opportunity to fix the system, but I was very privileged, having participated in experimental education programs that fostered STEM progressive and independent thinking. So I'll be bias.

What's HN's views on education? Can SV transform education really?

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/3734mh/serious_whats_broken_with_western_education/