Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education.
-- William O'Shea
The more I reflect on this, the more true it seems (not that something can become more true...), especially when education seems to have become about so many other things. But, education, institutionalized or not, really is about the development of something. Certainly information (content) is involved. But, the development of habits (disciplines) related to the content of an education society seem among the more important things that occur (or need to). Knowledge is applied in living life. Character is what shapes the use (values) of that knowledge in living.
