What Is School For?

I think that that purpose of school should be, first and foremost, education. We need to know our history and learn how to affect out future. We need to be taught how to fit into todays society and be successful. But there are certainly other important aspects of it. For example school should be to help people explore their interests and discover where they want to go in the working world and what they want to pursue. It should also be about teaching students how to live in the modern world. Finances and economics are an extremely important aspect of  day-to-day life, and as is evidenced by the levels of debt and foreclosure in our country, the recent generations are not well educated on the subject. In the same vein, the real-life application of many of the subjects we learn about is not well explored. Much of student boredom in school can likely be attributed to the fact that well, the curriculum is boring but also to the fact that few students can discern any real reason for them to learn what they are taught. I would like to seem more of these aspects in school, as well as more exploration of individuality, creativity and independence.