Bryan Caplan on the Case Against Education

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🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and the author of The Case Against Education talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Caplan argues that very little learning takes place in formal education and that very little of the return to college comes from skills or knowledge that is acquired in the classroom. Schooling, he concludes, as it is currently conducted is mostly a waste of time and money. Caplan bring a great deal of evidence to support his dramatic claim and much of the conversation focuses on the challenge of measuring and observing what students actually learn.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.6	Today is January 18, 2018, and my guest is economist and author Brian Kaplan of George Mason
0:38.8	University.
0:40.0	He blogs at econlog, which, like econtalk, is part of econlive.org, the Library of Economics
0:46.1	and Liberty.
0:47.2	His latest book is The Case Against Education.
0:50.4	Why the education system is a waste of time and money, which is the subject of today's
0:55.3	conversation.
0:56.5	This is Brian's seventh appearance on econtalk.
1:01.1	His most recent was in April 2014, almost four years ago, when we talked about many of
1:05.6	the topics during his book.
1:06.9	I'm hoping to take a new approach to the topic based on the work Brian's done in the
1:11.0	meanwhile, and bring up some other stuff along the way as well.
1:14.9	Brian, welcome back to econtalk.
1:17.0	Always a pleasure.
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