具體描述
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)
用戶評價
##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.
評分##Bryan Caplan是一個論證非主流觀點的天纔，不管你同不同意他的結論，他的寫作讀起來暢快無比
評分這本書花瞭十個章節來理論為什麼教育係統是在浪費錢和時間，我看完兩個章節就被說服瞭...正在苦惱剩下八個章節還要不要讀
評分##Bryan Caplan是一個論證非主流觀點的天纔，不管你同不同意他的結論，他的寫作讀起來暢快無比
評分##總結一下的話就是：作者隻看他想看的，隻說他想說的，不符閤他邏輯的事實他全當不存在。邏輯乍一看很通實際上是混淆概念和詭辯並且全書都沒啥實際有用的實證支撐。看完不由得思考這作者到底經曆瞭啥……
評分##經濟學傢自己反對自己。論點並不新。
評分##剛看的時候感覺很爽，本身我也不是個好學生，還嫌自己在學校玩兒少瞭，真不該上那些莫名其妙的課。看到後來其實也捫心自問，既然大傢應該注重真正的能力而不是學曆，那麼我真正的能力究竟如何呢？我在對現行教育製度嗤之以鼻的同時，真的沒有占它一點好處嗎？真的就沒有學曆比我低，而能力遠大於我的人嗎？
評分##贊同思考、再思考教育之“用”，但對書中給齣的標準，不太認同，經濟學傢的視角太冷峻瞭些。
評分##Interesting to see the statistics that Caplan lays out, but I find his arguments laden with a fair amount of loopholes and contradictions, as well as a great deal of conceit. For example, he fails to think of how the utility of the things learnt in school to daily life. Chapter 10 is a surprisingly large eyesore!
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