# The Case Against Education

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/the-case-against-education>

**By** Bryan Caplan, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus

**Published:** February 16, 2018

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Bryan Caplan gives us the case against traditional education.

Bryan Caplan gives us the case against traditional education and how employers reward workers for costly schooling they rarely if ever use, and why cutting education spending is the best remedy. Why have decades of growing access to education not resulted in better jobs for the average worker, but instead runaway credential inflation?

### Further Readings/References:

[The Case against Education](https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11225.html)

[Encyclopedia of Libertarianism: Education](https://www.libertarianism.org/encyclopedia/education)

[Free Thoughts Podcast: The Education Apocalypse](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/the-education-apocalypse-how-it-happened-and-how-to-survive-it)

[Free Thoughts Podcast: The State of State Education](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/the-state-of-state-education-in-america)

[More about Bryan Caplan’s work](http://www.bcaplan.com/)