Going to College Is Selfish Let's stop pretending education is a public good (reason.com)

"Let's stop pretending education is a public good", now that's a dystopian phrase if I've ever heard one.

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The author goes on and on about the purely financial advantages or disadvantages of society's cost of Education. Given the fact that all US citizens have the option to vote on complex social issues, I would rather that each citizen get the most education possible.

Also, the idea of budgeting education to only what we think will be useful is a bad path. We just don't know enough about what's useful to make proper decisions about what to study and who should study.

Dollars and cents is not the only way to measure a social good.