Contemporary Education

Education teaches facts.
It also teaches the hidden curriculum. how to be punctual, how to be social, how to respect authority, how to live in society once you are an adult basically.

So yes, of course it has intrinsic value. If I had never gone to school and had only been home schooled I never would have made friends, I would have grown up sheltered and would have been unprepared for the real world.

I don't seem to grasp how those are intrinsic values if they serve to elevate other values (punctuality, respect, responsibility, etc). I'm not certain how nuanced Swerve wants to get here, but by any definition, however superficial, "instrinsic" has an element of internality, self-containedness to speak. So the question can be more accessibly stated as: If the thing(s) that education is good for is/are no longer desirable (skills for employment, skills for life, facts, sociability, etc), are there still any values to education (modern education in particular, even though I don't quite see the distinction)?

A philosophical definition of the term "intrinsic value" refers to the Kantian idea of "an end in itself". An end is in itself when you respond "Just because." when someone asks you "Why?"/"For what purpose?" Considering that this was posted in Speakeasy, I don't think this kind of conversation is warranted, however. I'm just throwing it out there.