These were not the only aims of the School, called the Farm School, but they were central. We are older now, but the School, and children, and the promise that comes from being in a university, where people explore as a deep part of their lives, are still there. They Teach The point of schools is to learn what you otherwise wouldn't. We want our children to learn to do the things that good thinkers do when they are thinking well. Second thoughts are what first thoughts aren't.
Schools are generally about first thoughts of a special kind.
First thoughts are the culturally or subculturally shared first reactions of people like the thinker to whatever is being noticed. The overwhelming majority of my first thoughts are like yours, because we are members of a modern society, or simply human, but not all. Practitioners of some art or profession, like physicists, may have first thoughts that are second thoughts, or unreachable thoughts, for lots of us, but they are easily available thoughts for them. That is what a body of expert knowledge means. The standard aim of education is to impart certain experts' first thoughts to novices.