Education is what provides us with genuine knowledge.
Genuine knowledge is what helps understand and deal with life optimally. Coping with the challenges of life, or dealing with the real life problems optimally means acting properly under specific conditions, which is only possible when we have developed some understanding of the life which we believe true.
In the words of Jean Paul Sartre, we are doomed to be free. We have Free Will.
The Free Will binds us to do only what we feel beneficial, although we might think otherwise sometimes. As a matter of fact, the Free Will, as the term itself suggests, affords little connection with our thoughts, concepts or ideas. It is driven by our animal instincts mainly. It makes us act what we feel like acting, however our thoughts may oppose it. If our mind is wise enough, and often it is, it soon yields to the power of Free Will by beginning to generate ideas that do not clash with our feelings. This state of consistency, or agreement, between thought and feeling is called belief.
So, if we are taught to feel rightly, or rather believe rightly, we shall act appropriately. Education has more to do with refining our emotions than our thoughts. If it modifies, corrects, and develops our mental faculties only, that does not guarantee our acting accordingly. But if it performs the noble function of chastising and purifying our emotions and feelings, it is more than sure that we will act most accurately under any circumstances. It is because Free Will, the power behind action, can be, and mostly is, utilized way better by emotions than intellect. That' why, it is safe to maintain that genuine knowledge is correct information supported by a firm belief upon it. And genuine education is what provides us with genuine knowledge.
If you feel differently from what you think, which can be indexed by juxtaposing your thoughts with your actions, you may be fortunate or unfortunate enough to either become a Nietzsche, or an unknown lunatic in some infamous asylum, irrespectively.
