What’s going to be very important in 5 years’ time that we’re not thinking enough about now?
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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).
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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I do see that. And it might be that. People aren't generally good at isolating deeply held biases in their arguments. But I think that the obligation to show up made me invest time in learning things that turned out to be more valuable than what I would have done otherwise.
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Maybe your college experience was non-standard; lecture-style education (and, to a less-evidenced extent, compelled reading) are both so ineffective for long-run retention or model-building that I have a hard time believing that. Do you think you'd pass your final exams now?
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