A Case Against Public Education

Disclaimer: This interview was produced in 2017 by the Institute For Humane Studies, prior to Students For Liberty's acquisition of Learn Liberty. The opinions of this interviewer are his own and are not that of SFL.

Prof. Bryan Caplan argues that public funding for education doesn’t make sense. Watch the full interview on the Rubin Report:    • Anarcho-Capitalism, Economics, and Im...  

Caplan claims that educational degrees communicate a signal of worth rather than delivering valuable skills or information. Second, he argues that public education does not lead to a knowledgeable citizenry, since surveys show high school and college graduates are poorly informed on basic civics and history.

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“Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital,” (podcast) Prof. Caplan appears on the EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts to discuss the ideas in his forthcoming book, The Case Against Education http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014...
“Educational Signaling, a Fad Whose Time Has Come,” (blog post), Prof. Caplan answers a critic of the idea that degrees are mostly about signaling-- includes links to the original article critiquing his view. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2...
“Education Vs. Schooling” (video). Historian Steve Davies argues that meaningful education and schooling as we know it are two different things:    • Education Vs. Schooling: Is it The Same?  

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