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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Much of what US students study in school is utterly irrelevant to their lives.
Chapter 3: Signaling helps explain why college graduates earn more.
Chapter 4: Attending college is not always worth it.
Chapter 5: More schooling isn’t always good for society.
Chapter 6: Education can certainly enrich the soul, but it’s far too rare to really count.
Chapter 7: A few simple measures could drastically reduce the wastefulness of education.
Description
The Case Against Education (2018) takes orthodox opinion about education and turns it on its head. It argues that, far from turning students into skillful and productive workers, education serves primarily to verify employable character traits. Using this insight as its central premise, it goes on to argue that education needs to be substantially reformed.
Who Should Listen
- Public-policy buffs interested in educational reform
- Teachers and educators willing to engage with shocking ideas
- Young people wondering if college is for them