Philosophical Diversity 4. The public acquiesces in them, first, because it has a vague feeling that the members of certain occupations at least should be certified, or sanctified, in some way before they are let loose upon the public. . . . Teaching is an obvious example. But teaching, like many other occupations, has no intellectual content in its own right.
Education is a secondary, dependent subject.
It depends on what you want and what you can do. What you want depends on your philosophy. What you can do depends on your circumstances. Wherever you touch education, it fades into something else. The aims of an educational system are the aims of the society in which it is conducted.