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100			_aCaplan, Bryan Douglas
245			_aThe case against education : why our education system is a waste of time and money
260			_aUSA _bPrinceton University _c2018
300			_axiv, 395 p
505			_aIntroduction CHAPTER 1 The Magic of Education CHAPTER 2 The Puzzle Is Real: The Ubiquity of Useless Education CHAPTER 3 The Puzzle Is Real: The Handsome Rewards of Useless Education CHAPTER 4 The Signs of Signaling: In Case You’re Still Not Convinced CHAPTER 5 Who Cares If It’s Signaling? The Selfish Return to Education CHAPTER 6 We Care If It’s Signaling: The Social Return to Education CHAPTER 7 The White Elephant in the Room: We Need Lots Less Education CHAPTER 8 1 > 0: We Need More Vocational Education CHAPTER 9 Nourishing Mother Is Education Good for the Soul? CHAPTER 10 Five Chats on Education and Enlightenment Conclusion
520			_aDespite 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.
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