[social-bio] What is the purpose of modern education?  What do colleges, universities, and schools prepare the children of the world to learn how to do? In his blog, 2 cents worth: Teaching & learning in the new information landscape, David Warlick, a self-proclaimed “35-year vagabond educator,” both asks and responds to the following question in his post entitled, “What is the purpose of education.”  He suggests that: “The purpose of education is to appropriately prepare our children for their future.” There are some implied, but essential questions in that answer: What will their future hold?  What will they need to know? What are appropriate method, materials, environment, activity? Who are…