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Despite being immensely popular鈥攁nd immensely lucrative鈥攅ducation is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive book argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students鈥� skills but to signal the qualities of a good employee. Learn why students hunt for easy As only to forget most of what they learn after the final exam, why decades of growing access to education have not resulted in better jobs for average workers, how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy. Romantic notions about education being 鈥済ood for the soul鈥� must yield to careful research and common sense鈥�The Case against Education points the way.