Re: education, I think Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson have got this one right: it's 80% about signaling and conformity, and only 20% educational payload (on aver

Re: education, I think Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson have got this one right: it's 80% about signaling and conformity, and only 20% educational payload (on average). As with so many bad systems, perverse incentives and social normalization prompts the vast majority of the participants to keep playing along, not despite the inefficiencies of busywork and administrative overhead, but precisely because of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education http://elephantinthebrain.com/ http://elephantinthebrain.com/