The purpose of education is to provide students with the skills of today so they can acquire the skills of tomorrow. Education prepares students for present-day adult life, but also provides them the ability to succeed in the future, whatever it might hold for them. The role of the teacher is not only to teach the basic skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic, but to teach social and life skills. The teacher provides the student with skills to interact with all people and life skills, such as responsibility, sharing, and open-handedness. Education also exposes students to technology not readily available in their homes.
Technology is a major part of our labor market today.
In order for students to succeed in the workforce later, they need to acquire the skills today to work with technology, such as computers. Every classroom should have enough computers so that beginning at a young age computer skills are developed along side paper and pencil writing tasks. However, education is not for teaching morals. Families should teach morals to their children, while the schools teach them necessary life skills. Education is meant to enhance certain abilities in students.