Is the aim of education to engender a love of learning, or is it to produce young people who are literate, fit for work, and can perform a useful role in society?

I'd see those two as the same thing, especially in a world changing as fast as it is.

Maybe it depends on whether you see "love of learning" as meaning focussing on the corpus of existing "learning", or as meaning the act of learning itself, which is a defining quality of our species.