According to Paulo Freire, one of the tallest educationist of the 20th century and the architect of ‘critical pedagogy’ “There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the ‘practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” Conformity, Mr Pai, it seems is the only purpose of education in your world-view. Words of experts aside I’m certain your hefty experience with education would have unveiled to you many discoveries and evolution of social and political views. Colleges do that, subsidsed or not.