What is the purpose of education? Who is educated? Why?
@manners I had a professor in my Master’s program who insisted that the purpose of education was sorting. He had a point.
@AlliFlowers @manners yeah that's signaling theory (what does a degree signal, for example) vs. human capital theory (the skills you learn in school), but both are problematic, at least the extreme versions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-020-01837-z#PhilosophyOfEducation
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@AlliFlowers @manners yeah that's signaling theory (what does a degree signal, for example) vs. human capital theory (the skills you learn in school), but both are problematic, at least the extreme versions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-020-01837-z
#PhilosophyOfEducation