vocational education
3 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Bryan Caplan · across every show →
Everything said about vocational education, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Caplan: Cut public education budgets by one-third and fund vocational training
“The system where they cut overall spending by a third, and then reallocate, say, half of the money that we currently spend in junior and high school to vocational education. That seems like a very, very reasonable revision.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Caplan: Vocational education builds practical skills rather than signaling social status
“If you take signaling seriously, the really good thing about vocational education is it seems like it's much less about impressing others. In fact, there may even be a little bit of a stigma against it, and more about acquiring actual concrete practical skills…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Caplan: Vocational education boosts long-term earnings and employment rates
“First of all, there's quite a bit of research on just the selfish gains to the individual student, so even for students that do go into college, there's still pretty good evidence that, you know, vocational education in the long run rates your earnings and emp…”