In my opinion, education should be a life-long process, much more than a mean to secure good jobs.
The function of education is to teach people skills which can make them survive in the world. As the world changes day after day during our life, the skills of surviving also change correspondently. As people move from one field to another field, the skills also changes so because skills of surviving is so changeable, the process of learning survival skills must be a gradually and continuous process. As a result, education is a life-long process.
If we go deeper, education is a way of self-fulfilment. People want to receive education because they want to secure their life by learning more about life. People all hold this belief that only after they know the rules of life, they can control their own destiny and achieve self- fulfilment finally. But the variety and complexity of life itself and the uncertain'lity of rules in life makes this process quite difficult and rather long, longer than people's life most of the time. Only very few people could understand the real rule of life during their life time. They were called great phylosophers.
Education is a life-long process because life itself is a process of learning and teaching.
