What are you being educated for?

I feel that I am being educated to find out how the world works. This has not always been the case, but in my later years of high school, and now in college, I feel that this is the main reason I am here. The other reasons are there; parents want me to go, get a job and live in the world, all those outside things, but recently it is simply to understand more of our society. Not only do I want to be educated about the world, but I want to change it, and I figure the best way to do that is to first know about it.