讽刺的是,他还即将出版一部名叫《反对教育的理由》(The Case Against Education)的新书。卡普兰不无道理地指出,很多大学生似乎没有学到任何与职场有明显关联的东西,但在毕业后,他们比非大学毕业生获得了好得多的职业前景。
Why?
为什么?
Caplan’s answer is that education is a signal.
卡普兰的答案是,教育是一个标志。
If employers have no way to tell who is smart and diligent, a student can prove that she fits into that category by excelling in, say, Latin.
如果雇主无法判断谁聪明勤奋,一个学生可以通过擅长某项技能,比如拉丁文,来证明她是这种类型的人。
The Latin is like a peacock’s tail: costly and useless in its own right but a necessary investment.
拉丁文就像孔雀的尾巴:很贵,本身毫无用处,但却是一种必要的投资。
To the extent that Caplan is right, undergraduate degrees have no value to society: they enable employers to pay higher wages to smarter workers, but lower wages to everyone else — and in order to enjoy these higher wages, smart people must waste time and money going to the trouble of acquiring a degree.
在这个层面上,卡普兰是对的,本科学位对社会并没有价值:它们让雇主为更聪明的员工支付更高的薪资,却给其他所有人支付更低的薪资——而为了享受这种更高的工资,聪明人必须浪费时间和金钱费事取得一个学位。
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