I think you’re drawing too much of a distinction here. Education can be just learning for the test. What you’re being tested on can be the entirety of what you need to know. It’s working extremely well for all of Asia. There’s no reason we can’t take away something from that.
Education is about building and maintaining a successful society. People have different opinions on how to define success.
Learning for the test is just a pointless excercise. If some part of education has no goals beyond that, it should be abolished as a waste of people's time and money.
