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Think of education as an end-in-itself, rather than a utilitarian thing that delivers certain outcomes. I don't know how to make you stop thinking in a utilita
by littletimmy 11y ago
Think of education as an end-in-itself, rather than a utilitarian thing that delivers certain outcomes.
I don't know how to make you stop thinking in a utilitarian way. There are other philosophies, you know?
- maxerickson 11y agoI'm pretty sure it can't coherently be an end in itself and deliver no value. I responded to the juxtoposition here: There is no reason to apply economics to education. "Value" is not only monetary. I'm not insisting that you view education through the lens of economics, I was pointing out that what you said about value was not an argument against economics (because economics doesn't care about what form value takes). You keep looking for a word other than value to describe this thing that you think should happen because then I can't point out that you can analyze it economically, but this is not a way to argue that education should not be analyzed economically, it is a misunderstanding of economics (it was really clear when stated as "Value" is not only monetary, but "we should do it just because" is still an imputation of value...).
- littletimmy 11y agoThis has turned into a last-word-mine argument, so I'm out.