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The modern western education system does not exist for the purpose of increasing the general productive capacity of the society. The modern education system exists for the purpose of perpetuating itself. It is an organism that has successfully fought off most major infections that would help it adapt into a superior being. To prove this point you just need to reflect upon what we have talked about so far and then continually ask the question “Why?” For instance, if tests are neither predictive of an individual’s ability to apply knowledge in a productive manner, nor able to infer an individual’s passion for a topic nor their ability to create and add value in the exploration of that topic, then why do we take tests in schools? If grades are not predictive of future success but only a quantitative measure (if that) of a person’s ability to adapt to a quasi-academic environment that is substantially different than the environment in which most people will create, produce and work the rest of their lives, why do we have grades? Why do we have teachers? Why do we have principals? School boards? Text books? Education may in fact be the one silver bullet we have. We engage in endless conversations about culture, business, celebrity and a myriad other issues. Why not education and its purpose?