Why do we need education? There is no easy answer.
Education is needed just like any other things, because need leads to production. We can summarize the meaning of education to our practical need. So efficient education can bring knowledge and theories guiding practical business or experiments. Riding had been instituted to ancient kings because wars of cold weapons are essential national events that time. While there is no need for nowadays leaders to gain riding, instead, speech skill is called for. Thus education responds to the need of individual and historic requests. Because communication is the most efficient way to solute international conflicts in modern time instead of war.
Students also chose education according to their interests. On the other hand, education is efficient only when students are learning what they love. You can image how terrible a poem is, if it is created by the boy whose brain is full of math equations. Of cause, interest is the best teacher. The boy above probably is willing to explore a complex law. On the contrary, there are must be some subjects lacking explorers. It is not only blocking the development of a subject but also reducing the development of society in indirect way. Just like we cannot foresee binary system could be the theoretical basis for computers.
In consideration of individual characteristic, one task of education is finding abilities of every student and help students to develop their abilities. It would be the centennial pity for NBA if Michael Jorden did not receive training in basketball team in middle school. We are lucky that Edison's interest for invitation is so strong that he fond Wu as idol material, then bomb lit up civilization and industry development. Education is efficient for them doing the right thing by the right person at the right time.
However, education resource is limited so that providing special designed education is impossible even though everyone is unique with unique potential ability. If a primary school contain 300 purple give designed education, a large number of money and teachers will be needed. It is cannot burden by any national economic tax incoming. Providing widely circumstances seems to be a perfect remedy. Its purple is just show how wide the word is and encourage young-aged students finding their interest, maybe a lot of interests. Students should have right to chose majors in their further learning as well, then they could learning under guide from special tutors. It is a process of deleting dislike in order to seek the field they would like devote our whole life to explore. They may create a new period in their field just pushed by engine of interests.
To sum up, efficient education provides the most widely fondamental circumstances in order to help the majority find their unique shining ability and interests. At the same time, efficient education the chance to who are being on the way to specialists. To answer the question at the beginning, we need education to put ourselves at the historic position. Efficient education digs everyone’s potential max