Profligacy for Austerity?

Suppose you strongly desire to drastically increase the amount of education that people consume. What should you do?

The obvious answer: Make education completely free of charge – and have the government pay the the entire cost.

I say this obvious answer is obviously right. As I explain inThe Case Against Education, I favor extreme educational austerity, because I think the education system is a waste of time and money. Nevertheless, given the goal of drastically increasing educational...