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College isn't about job training, it's more about demonstrating that one is good prospective employee (signalling).[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_
by nickff 6y ago
College isn't about job training, it's more about demonstrating that one is good prospective employee (signalling).[1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education#:~:text=The%20Case%20Against%20Education%3A%20Why%20the%20Education%20System,in%20labor%20economics.%20Caplan%20argues%20that%20the%20prima https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education#:...
- andreev_io 6y agoPerhaps the more original source for this idea is in Michael Spence’s 1973 paper on Job Market Signaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
- swiley 6y agoReally? I remember half my capstone classmates that couldn't code or focus for more than five minutes on a project. All of them had good grades of course.