Teaching people in general isn't a very good business. Even the lauded head start programs that last much longer than boot camps and target kids (so they have b

Teaching people in general isn't a very good business. Even the lauded head start programs that last much longer than boot camps and target kids (so they have both much more potential influence and more time to recoup the costs) achieve meagre results if any. In fact, there are reasons to believe that human capital is mostly what you're born with plus (or maybe it's more of a multiplier) the accumulated achievements of your predecessors with very little input from organized education. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/did_nations_tha.html http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/did_nations_tha.... http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-speech/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-...