Education?

I have just been reading "Living at the Crossroads" by Goheen and Batholomew and as a home schooler just love this quote from a book called 'The End of Education' by Postman -

"if we no longer agree on the end(the goal or purpose) for education, it may be that we have reached the end (the termination) of education.....education cannot proceed without serving some god.......Without meaning learning has no purpose. Without purpose schools are houses of detention not attention."

Goheen and Bartholomew go on to say, "the lack of conscious reflection on the goal or purpose of education leads us to accept by default those purposes, those 'gods' that have been shaped by a culture in crisis."