What an education ought to be:

How did this one get lost?

"To give to every citizen the information he needs for the
transaction of his own business; To enable him to calculate for
himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts
and accounts, in writing; To improve, by reading, his morals and
faculties; To understand his duties to his neighbors and country,
and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by
either; To know his rights; to exercise with order and justice
those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciary of
those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence,
with candor, and judgment; And, in general, to observe with
intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under
which he shall be placed."

-- Thomas Jefferson (Report of the Commissioners for the University
of Virginia, 4 August 1818)

Reference: Jefferson Writings, Peterson, ed., 459.