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44 reviews for:
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Bryan Caplan
3.74 AVERAGE
44 reviews for:
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Bryan Caplan
3.74 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
slow-paced
Not easy reading but a fascinating and deep analysis of the value of education, strongly buttressed by fact.
Caplan is passionless, circumspect, exacting, detailed, mellow, and an utter joy to read. Without any hyperbole or vitrial, he calmly makes his case with relevant statistics, and then examines and dismantles any counter arguments. His analysis of the problem of modern schools is impeccable, and he demonstrates as clearly as it could be that schooling in America needs to be reduced.
With that said, he does engage in some extremism in his solution to the problems he establishes, which is a bit disappointing. He pretty much explicitly says he takes the extreme view as a counter-corrective to the current consensus. That's fine in a vaccum, but in a book that's so much about evaluating the margin, it's odd that his solution leaps right over it.
With that said, he does engage in some extremism in his solution to the problems he establishes, which is a bit disappointing. He pretty much explicitly says he takes the extreme view as a counter-corrective to the current consensus. That's fine in a vaccum, but in a book that's so much about evaluating the margin, it's odd that his solution leaps right over it.
informative
reflective
slow-paced