What’s going to be very important in 5 years’ time that we’re not thinking enough about now?
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1/2 While I agree with your last sentence, I think there's more signal in a college degree. For a (relatively) small group of effective autodidacts, there's low or no value. But forced-ish exposure to new ideas builds useful frameworks for a lot of people.
Yep, this is the "critical thinking"/"human development"/"personal growth" argument that people keep repeating, over and over, without providing any evidence that it's anything more than wishful thinking. Strongly suggest you read Caplan's book.
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I will read his book, but I don't think that's my argument. I would never have picked up an economics textbook when I was 18. Being forced to take some classes and then learning specific, substantive things in those classes was valuable (to me, at least).
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If it were valuable to you, you wouldn't have had to do it at financial gunpoint. You can see why this might look like cultural Stockholm Syndrome, right?
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