The Case Against Education

The conventional wisdom that a college education isae key to success is not only oversold, it's simply wrong. In this provocative book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance a student's skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity—in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee. Learn why students hunt for easy As and casually forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of increasing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for the average worker but instead in runaway credential inflation, and how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely if ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy.