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The Case against Education - Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money (Hardcover)
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The Case against Education - Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money (Hardcover)
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Why we need to stop wasting public funds on education Despite being
immensely popular--and immensely lucrative-education is grossly
overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the
primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but
to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity-in other
words, to signal the qualities of a good employee. Learn why
students hunt for easy As and casually forget most of what they
learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to
education have not resulted in better jobs for the average worker
but instead in runaway credential inflation, how employers reward
workers for costly schooling they rarely if ever use, and why
cutting education spending is the best remedy. Caplan draws on the
latest social science to show how the labor market values grades
over knowledge, and why the more education your rivals have, the
more you need to impress employers. He explains why graduation is
our society's top conformity signal, and why even the most useless
degrees can certify employability. He advocates two major policy
responses. The first is educational austerity. Government needs to
sharply cut education funding to curb this wasteful rat race. The
second is more vocational education, because practical skills are
more socially valuable than teaching students how to outshine their
peers. Romantic notions about education being "good for the soul"
must yield to careful research and common sense-The Case against
Education points the way.
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