Education as a rite of passage There is an old saying: "If the men in a society are not initiated into it - they will destroy it." I believe that we live in those times. I think of education as two things - an opportunity to learn information as well as the recognition that our learning moves us along to the next stage of life. This thought brings up the question about which of these should be the main goal of education. Is education about teaching information - or is educati