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The objective of education is to foster creativity and innovation, but the practice often falls short of these goals. Education has a purpose regardless of its form, even "education for the sake of education." When a person is being educated in a certain area, he/she learns much more than the skills that are being focused on. For example, in an English class, a student may be learning how to extract information and ideas from reading texts, but by writing essays he/she also learns how to think critically and analytically, form arguments, and present those arguments.

It's interesting that school is often meant to prepare students for the real world, by a school's society is often in it's own bubble and separate from the real world.

In some ways the process of education has become prolonged (college, followed by graduate school, followed by professional school, etc.) instead of producing younger educated people to participate in society.

While the goal of education is to create innovators, many of the most prominent innovators are college dropouts, such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Conclusion: Even if we don't know it at the moment, we can retrospectively realize the purpose of our education.