Education allows me to answer questions like this with some authority. In addition, I find uneducated people really off-putting. Wouldn’t be proud to be one myself.

Are you REALLY incapable of coming up with any of the ways knowing more, and understanding the world better, help people?

Come ON!

Since I’m unwilling to do your homework for you, I suggest you look in the preferatory material in the texts for your various courses — they tend to give reasons why it’s important to learn about their subjects.

But THINK about it — why is it a good thing to understand things better? How does it help all educated people? What sorts of things we do (besides work) where understanding things helps us?

You don’t need an education unless you plan to do something that requires it. The reason we go to school is because if parents didn’t send their children to school they’d be fined; if they refuse to pay the fine, people in blue costumes with guns will come to take their children away and throw them in a cage; if they resist this aggression they’ll be shot. The same will happen to anyone who refuses to pay for this “service” regardless of whether they have children attending school or not.

By having a more educated work force business can product more then other possible. Also education has been show to reduce fertility rates, increase GDP, increase life expectancy. Development also depend very heavily on education. One of the reason this may be is becuase education means that a person can interrupt information about a product and it price more accurately. This make market more efficient and means that market failure happens less frequently.