Bryan Caplan recently wrote a good response to someone critiquing his book The Case Against Education. Near the bottom of the article there were some arguments relating to the high school system which I would like to comment on. In his book, Caplan didn’t really address how wasteful the high school system is, instead focusing on the university system. In my book , I wrote the most comprehensive case against the American high school system and similar systems that I am aware of. The case is broken down into a few main components: It’s historically abnormal (Ch. 1) It’s not lindy, it’s historically new (Ch. 2 part 1) It was created for dubious purposes by ignorant people (Ch. 2 part 1)
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