Education a waste?
After reading the first page of Bryan Caplan’s book, I just might want to read the rest. I don’t know that I agree with him, but he may be on to something.
EconLog, Page One of My Next Book, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty
Personally, then, I have no reason to lash out at the education system. Quite the contrary. But three decades of experience, combined with two decades of reading and reflection, have convinced me that our educational system is a big waste of time and money. Practically every politician vows to spend more on education, and as an insider, I can’t helping asking “Why? Do you want us to waste even more?”
Here is a professor of Economics, a “professional student,” who is happy with his lot, but …you’ll just have to read the rest of the first page of his new book.
Dave, thinking that maybe only greed kept him from such a life.
