by Eddie Carrara. If you think you may have a car power steering leak, the first thing you should do is check the power steering fluid reservoir, if the fluid level in the reservoir is low, you just might have a leak in the power steering system.
But it's not. The real goal of education, and of school, is becomingâbecoming a good person and becoming a more capable person than when you started. Learning is nothing but a means of accomplishing that goal, and it is dangerous to confuse the ends with the means.
The aim of an educational system is the same in every age and in every society where such a system can exist; it is to improve man as a man. What this means is that the aim of an educational system is the development of the intellectual powers of a man. In other words, we should try to train the intellect. Hutchins is so committed to this goal, that he thinks the schools should do away with all non-intellectual activities.