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by Matticus_Rex 2951 days ago
I highly recommend The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan (https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/d...). It's one of the more careful social science books I've ever read, and while it comes to controversial conclusions, even if you disagree with them you'll learn a lot about the issues by reading it. The assumption that education can be assumed to be profitable for society simply isn't supported by the evidence.
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So, by pointing out this book, are you saying that your only metric for education is economic value and wage marketability?
No, and neither is this book -- it also deals heavily with less tangible factors.