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While I don't agree with him entirely. Brian Caplan has some interesting thoughts on the topic of education.

Around the idea that most of the value is around signalling to others (Via credentials), rather than what you learn.*

Certainly from talking to other people about their recent university education (UK), most people seem to agree that they leant & retained very little.

I can't help but wonder if for a lot of people an apprenticeship scheme would be better overall.

*Summarising a whole book in a sentence is rather difficult, and I surely didn't do it justice.



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