Case against Education
Why we need to stop wasting public funds on educationDespite 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 wo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4008-8932-7
- EAN: 9781400889327
- Produktnummer: 24630652
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Bryan Caplan
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