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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. (less)
用户评价
##经济学家自己反对自己。论点并不新。
评分##2.5？
评分##总结一下的话就是：作者只看他想看的，只说他想说的，不符合他逻辑的事实他全当不存在。逻辑乍一看很通实际上是混淆概念和诡辩并且全书都没啥实际有用的实证支撑。看完不由得思考这作者到底经历了啥……
评分##很有说服力 但是没有实验证明
评分##Bryan Caplan是一个论证非主流观点的天才，不管你同不同意他的结论，他的写作读起来畅快无比
评分##2.5？
评分##赞同思考、再思考教育之“用”，但对书中给出的标准，不太认同，经济学家的视角太冷峻了些。
评分##trolling with bountiful quantitative studies lol. i m convinced. i especially like the part where he confessed that some data he used r practically guesswork. zero chance of the policies proposed in the book will be implemented though. will read up all his works.
评分这本书花了十个章节来理论为什么教育系统是在浪费钱和时间，我看完两个章节就被说服了...正在苦恼剩下八个章节还要不要读
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