What Should the Long-Range Goal of Education Be Going Forward?

If our understanding of what Literacy implies in the 21st century and we know how and why classrooms have changed, then we need to put this all together and understand our long-range goal has to be educating individuals who are able to understand the barrage of information coming at them and use new learning to further enhance concepts going forward. Only when new learning contributes to a better understanding of the world will we be members of a society that can succeed going forward.