the function of education

The speaker asserts that the educator should not place so much emphasis on finding out what the students want to include in the curriculum and then arrange them with these course and believes that it is the educator's duty to decide which courses the student should take without consideration of the student's circumstance. Maybe it goes some way ,but after having a deep thought, i really can not agree with the speaker for the following reasons.
First of all, I think that education is a thing related to the society and student themselves. As for the society, it expects it's civilian can be civil and well qualified and informed to keep itself thriving and stable. And education is a key method to improve people's qualities. Every member in a society should learn the basic society displines and some other base things to keep oneself
to be a good qualifi...