Yes, Caplan is aware of all of the considerations you’ve raised. It’s a good read too.
He also doesn’t push “demolishing all schools” but cutting government subsidies. He’s also confident that that’s not going to happen. Even in the event that substantial cuts in subsidies *were* realized, he doesn’t imagine *no* schools, just significantly fewer. He also ‘supports’ subsidized grade school (as a form of daycare). His conclusions are most directed at graduate school, college, and, to a lesser extent, high school.
And maybe it’s not clear, but Caplan’s book is about the benefits of education, in its current forms, being weak *relative to their costs* (e.g. other opportunities).
If you say that, I’ll have to raise my confidence in Caplan a little bit. But I’d raise it a lot more if you hinted at what those considerations actually look like. How high is his confidence in his conclusions, and where is that confidence coming from?
Yes, Caplan is aware of all of the considerations you’ve raised. It’s a good read too.
He also doesn’t push “demolishing all schools” but cutting government subsidies. He’s also confident that that’s not going to happen. Even in the event that substantial cuts in subsidies *were* realized, he doesn’t imagine *no* schools, just significantly fewer. He also ‘supports’ subsidized grade school (as a form of daycare). His conclusions are most directed at graduate school, college, and, to a lesser extent, high school.
And maybe it’s not clear, but Caplan’s book is about the benefits of education, in its current forms, being weak *relative to their costs* (e.g. other opportunities).
If you say that, I’ll have to raise my confidence in Caplan a little bit. But I’d raise it a lot more if you hinted at what those considerations actually look like. How high is his confidence in his conclusions, and where is that confidence coming from?