I think that's a good part of it, learning fundamentals of things you'll need is also vital. I've grown to mostly appreciate learning how to learn. It's a skill that's implicit, but putting the building blocks in at an early stage regarding how to seek and learn knowledge sets you up so well for the rest of your existence.

Another way to think about it is to say that education is the memorization of knowledge, while intelligence is the application of said knowledge. i.e. book smarts vs. street smarts. They aren’t the same things, but are two building blocks that work together.

At least that’s how I look at it.

Many times when I post on Lemmy I am then educated. I do appreciate it a lot, thanks everyone.

Memorization is such a strange thing to try to teach. I was never good at that in school but could sing any song on the radio after hearing it once. In school I was good enough at math up to a point because I was so bad at memorization got good at thinking my way through it. Was much better at word problems than equations in elementary school.

I do agree with the premise of the shower thought - part of being educated is learning through mistakes. Making mistakes is one of the fastest ways to learn something, and is the main reason I'm good at my job. I am happy to work in accounting where mistakes don't kill anyone.

Education improves intelligence marginally by forcing people to use parts of their brains more, which then remodel to be more efficient.

Most of your intelligence is set.

Education packs you with group of people so your instinct wants you to live in community and puts a boss ( teacher ) above you, because they want you to become a factory worker in capitalistic world. Poor animals are we.