tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post5555132566212496127..comments2024-03-27T03:00:27.024-04:00Comments on Facts & other stubborn things: Strawmen are not very good sparring partnersEvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259004160963531720noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-36004130470139322652012-03-24T12:24:58.815-04:002012-03-24T12:24:58.815-04:00We don't like to rush things ;-)We don't like to rush things ;-)Daniel Kuehnhttp://www.factsandotherstubbornthings.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-91404460182787884272012-03-24T12:23:19.191-04:002012-03-24T12:23:19.191-04:00"I think the signaling model primarily tells ..."I think the signaling model primarily tells us why you see a lot more people getting four years of college education than three years. If it was simply a human capital story, you wouldn't see a big discontinuity at four years."<br /><br />That's interesting isn't it. In Britain University degrees are 3 years long for a Bachelors degree, so our discontinuity is at three years. But, American employers often accept UK degrees.Currenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08645195276844244481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-63515293893288364092012-03-24T09:08:39.053-04:002012-03-24T09:08:39.053-04:00Was my comment a strawman, Daniel?
Cos' I hop...Was my comment a strawman, Daniel?<br /><br />Cos' I hope it wasn't.<br /><br />But to be on topic, this reminds me of a discussion an English professor of mine had in the spring term of 2011 at Trinity College. (I was in a survey of English literature course from Alexander Pope to Samuel Beckett.) He was discussing how education is moving in the way that "practical" people wanted it to. In other words, these people, a la Jeremy Bentham, wanted something like a vocational education, and scorned the humanities.<br /><br />I'm firmly on your side of the argument, and not Caplan's. College educations do provide excellent skills for life, and writing essays about Faulkner, Hawthorne, and Melville, or Blake, Conrad, and Shelley, can make you a better person.Blue Aurorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02044362251868221897noreply@blogger.com