The Case for Education - EA Forum
I discovered the rationalist community two years ago. I had just dropped out of college, was looking for a software engineering job in London, and was in the process of getting what would become The…
JKM 5y 18 1 0 But how can it be that EAs see so much wrong with the education system, while also spending so much time in university A key claim in this post seems to be that the vast majority if not all EAs see higher education as broken and that they only go to signal their ability. Is there sufficient evidence for this claim? Maybe the claim is true, but the only evidence you provide is anecdotal and based on a single meet up. Is it possible, even if that claim is true, that a minority of people really benefit from the higher education system and have a great impact on the world through it?
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