Working together and growing together as a community is becoming an obsolete purpose for schools and education in general. Education is losing its sense of purpose. Social and moral problems are ignored by technology fluff. The meaning of the past and present are no longer meaningful to the youth. Pride in one's country and community and what it means to have a purpose are what people should be striving toward.
Postman thinks the story of human history are what give people meaning.
The education system now lacks in that sense of meaning. Postman stated that children are now suffering from information glut, not scarcity. There is so much information through technology that people can not possibly concentrate on calues anymore. All billboards, newspapers, televisions and videos distract and confuse everyone from what things are really important. The purpose of school is to teach students howto get rid of useless infomation so that they can organize and have a clear vision of what is important.