The end of education?

The last sentence of The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez reads: "It would require many more years of schooling (an inevitable miseducation) in which I came to trust the silence of reading and the habit of abstracting from immediate experience- moving away from a life of closeness and immediacy I remembered with my parents, growing older- before I turned unafraid to desire the past, and thereby achieved what had eluded me for so long- the end of education." Rodriguez, now comfortable and confident in his education, and accepting in his relationship with his parents, believes he has reached "the end of education." Therefore, in his mind, education is never fully attained until the self is comfortable with the knowledge it has gained and the relationships it has sacrificed. I wonder if his meaning is intended for all students, or only for "scholarship boys". I must admit that I find his "end of education" premise a rather unappealing one. Isn't education continuous- a never-ending process? To say that education has an end implies an all-knowing state of mind. Surely, I am misinterpreting this last sentence and deriving some other meaning that was not intended. However, it struck me in such a way I couldn't help but comment on it.