“In his new book, which I review here, Tyler Cowen writes:
‘Placebo effects can be very powerful and many supposedly effective medicines do not in fact outperform the placebo. The sorry truth is that no one has compared modern education to a placebo. What if we just gave people lots of face-to-face contact and told them they were being educated?’
He reluctantly provides the terrifying conclusion: Maybe that’s what current methods of education already consist of.”
Link taken from Marginal Revolution.
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