Snapd
ragon
THE P RTAL
September 2014
Page 5
A means to an end
Snapdragon examines the question:
What is education for?
Is it merely a means to an end,
or does it have a more important purpose?
I
n a couple of weeks, I will be waving off my nephew to university, having done the same to
my niece this time last year. Tens of thousands of other young people their age will similarly
be taking up the university places they have secured and embarking on a course of three or
four ye