Nice to see someone living their research in their own life[1]. On a personal anecdotal parallel I went in and out of public and private schools growing up. My

Nice to see someone living their research in their own life[1]. On a personal anecdotal parallel I went in and out of public and private schools growing up. My parents had to drive me to local high school campus so I could take geometry in 8th grade (I'd already done Algebra 1-2 and 3-4 in 5th and 6th grade at a private school which was basically run like Caplan's home schooling, a group of us did 4 hours of math a day together). With my children now I've seen different schools work great and work terribly. We've moved kids between schools trying to match up needs of each child with the design of the program at the school. My main macro observation (via 4 kids who are now adults and 1 who is in high school): For kids who know they want to be a specialist at a young age school is really hard for them. If as a society we really believe in comparative economic advantage and each person working for their highest and best use then exchanging their earned dollars with specialists in other areas of their life then school is designed poorly for those who do choose to specialize, costing them years of advancement at a point when their brains are setup to build pathways more quickly. [1] Caplan is a Princeton PhD and now tenured professor at GMU who is the author of "The Case Against Education" https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174655/the-case-against-education https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174655/th...