Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education and My Case Against Politics + Why you should check out ReasonTV
I was actually going to share an interview of Bryan Caplan on his book The Case Against Education which pretty much summed up half of the reasons why I quit school in a very academic and soft sort of way without sounding like a scene written by Gen Urobuchi, Mamoru Oshii, Project Itoh or Hideo Kojima. So I'll get that one off first.
“Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse resume to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready--for nothing in particular.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
These two quotes were pretty much my own points (which I came up on my own at the time) which I used to make my friends drop out and none of them did (and not all if it was their fault either). I did somehow managed to help put an end to their college life even though some actually went ahead and became bankers......... and they would rather put their saving on their bank bonds. You can't feed people salvation. You need to take personal responsibility. Speaking of that:
I have never liked the idea of the joke that is democracy and being an ahead the curve performer certainly didn't help to change my views. I'm a great believer in specialization. People are simply better at certain things. I always considered Math and Science to be pretty damn easy and the art subject were pretty much hell. Even literature included boring garbage instead of Arthur C. Clarke, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle or those 19th century horror stuff I sometimes read secretly during classes.
When you pick a trait and expand the amount of people that contribute to the average effect, you dilute that specific trait. Pick some violent criminals and expand the the group from those who received death penalty to the entire prison population, the overall amount of violence drops. If you take a bunch of rational decision makers and make it all inclusive, all that rationality fades away.
Do you seriously want a random selection like the above sample should be making decisions that affect your life? More importantly do you want a system that allow that? Politics is a waste of time. We don't need the correct kind of politics. We need the absolute minimum of politics and that begins and ends at the Non-Aggression Principle. It won't cure the world of the evil people and the stupid people. But then again, nothing can cure evil or stupidity without personal enlightenment. What we need to make sure is that baddies and dumbasses are not going to hurt the rest.
Speaking about hurting the rest of us there are tons of cases where political movements hurting practically everybody. Living in a developing country with a government where most government officials or politicaians doesn't know what Bitcoin is I am constantly suprised to see the amount of regulation in most mundane things get. I could say that except for the bribary and inefficiency of the public sector, a developing economy of a 2nd word country can be more free than that of USSA
I could say that except for the bribary and inefficiency of the public sector, a developing economy of a 2nd word country can be more free than that of USSA
And there is the rub isn't it? It may not be perfect but it beats the hell out of the alternatives. I have a friend from a developing nation and because he is wealthy and has connections he can get around the tariffs that make buying a new car prohibitively expensive there unless you cheat the system. Our corruption in America is at the highest levels whereas in developing countries it is at every level and all the time. That makes it hard to really get things done or to get ahead.
Everything in the world is relative. Even your article. To you, and to me, it seems qualitative and interesting, and to someone boring and long. It's the same, and education. Anyone who wants will always receive. And he who seeks will always find. If a person searches for knowledge, he will always find them, and no educational system will hinder him.
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