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The labor market doesn’t pay you for the useless subjects you master; it pays you for the preexisting traits you reveal by mastering them.
Adults are amazingly ignorant about subjects they studied since childhood.
Asking “How can there be too much education if education is lucrative?” is like asking “How can there be too much air pollution if cars are convenient?”
In practice, education often turns out to be a neglectful or abusive mother rather than a nourishing one.
If educators really wanted to broaden students’ horizons, curricula would give students a tour of what the world has to offer—not a tour of what educators were forced to learn when they were students.
