giovedì 12 aprile 2018

CHAPTER 1 The Magic of Education

CHAPTER 1 The Magic of Education
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lecture, write, and think my thoughts. These are virtually my only marketable skills.
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The Ivory Tower routinely ignores the real world.
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Employers care deeply about professors’ opinions.
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defer to teachers’ opinions when they decide whom to interview,
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financial benefits.
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failed investments in education
Note:UN MITO SENZA BASI

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High school graduates earn more than dropouts, college grads earn more than high school grads, and holders of advanced degrees do better still.
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about 10%.
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better quality of life, and lower unemployment.
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Otherworldly Education
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why.
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schools teach their students useful job skills.
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Literacy and numeracy
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students spend thousands of hours studying subjects irrelevant
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Why do English classes focus on literature and poetry instead of business and technical writing?
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history? Trigonometry? Art? Music? Physics? “Physical Education”? Spanish? French? Latin!
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educators teach what they know—and
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schools boost students’ income
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why do they entrust students’ education to people so detached from the real world?
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your job almost certainly won’t require knowledge of geometry, French, world history,
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Arts and Literature, Biological Science, Historical Studies, International Studies, Philosophy and Values, Physical Science, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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statistics and econometrics—in
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emphasize mathematical proofs,
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broadening students’ horizons.
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studying foreign languages, so there must be lots of translators.
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A thriving market in literary criticism
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typical worker occasionally solves quadratic equations
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that economy is out of this world.
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compensation and job satisfaction
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Strategies for breaking into various industries?
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learning how to write a resume or affect a can-do attitude?
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The way our education system transforms students into paid workers seems like magic.
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Students rapidly forget most of what they learn because “they’ll never need to know it again.”
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As far as I can tell, the only marketable skill I teach is “how to be an economics professor.”
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understand the market for marriage,
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employers decide students who fail my class aren’t worth interviewing. Abracadabra.
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students to become economics professors,
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I don’t know how to do the jobs most of my students are going to have.
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Making Magic Pay
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academic success is a strong signal of worker productivity.
Note:SPIEGAZ DELLA PUBBLICITÀ...AGENZIA PUBBLICITARIA

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preexisting traits you reveal
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Certifying preexisting skills
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my condemnation is devastating.
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impress educators with their brilliance and industry—or
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Basics of Signaling
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Michael Spence, Kenneth Arrow, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Schelling, and Edmund Phelps—all
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Michael Spence’s work on signaling
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different types of people. Types could differ in intelligence, conscientiousness, conformity, whatever.
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individual’s type must be nonobvious. You can’t discover
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types must visibly differ on average;
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“Which worker sends the best signals?”
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measure conformity.
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crew cuts
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mohawks.
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prudent employers treat hairstyle as a signal
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hiring by coin flip.
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crew cuts pay.
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signaling sows the seeds of its own destruction.
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viable signals must be less costly for types in higher demand.
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rebels detest “square” haircuts,
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a gray flannel suit.
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The “on average” qualifier is crucial.
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Clear signals carry a strong stigma, fuzzy signals a weak stigma.
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statistical discrimination”:
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stereotypes to save time and money.
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The elderly pay higher life insurance premiums
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Cab drivers are more willing to pick up a young man in a suit than a young man in gang colors
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Statistical discrimination may be unfair and ugly, but it’s hardly weird or implausible.
Note:È OVUNQUE...È ANCHE NELLA SCUOLA

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What Does Education Signal?
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the ideal student is well behaved, unaggressive, docile, patient, meticulous, and empathetic
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likely to please the teacher.
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economists have kept the model in a ghetto.
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haircut, clothes, punctuality, polite laughter at interviewers’ jokes.
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your education.
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education is just a signal of intelligence.
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Education really is a strong signal of intelligence—and
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SAT scores,
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education signals not just intelligence, but conscientiousness—the student’s discipline, work ethic, commitment to quality, and so forth.
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Jenn spent twenty hours a week earning her college degree part time. Karen, in contrast, spent twenty hours a week creating the world’s biggest ball of yarn.
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equally smart;
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equally conscientious.
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challenging project
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she toiled in the service of socially approved goals.
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eccentric vanity project.
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deference to social expectations;
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team player.
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When the boss says, “Jump,” she’ll ask, “How high?”
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education also signals conformity—the
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If you defy these expectations,
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denounce credentialism,
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humbly hold your tongue.
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Hippies strive to look, talk, and act like fellow hippies.
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modern model workers.
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team players.
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deferential to superiors, but not slavish.
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congenial toward coworkers but put business first.
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dress and groom conservatively.
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nothing remotely racist or sexist,
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away from anything construable as sexual harassment.
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they know and do what’s expected,
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Employers don’t have to tell
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intelligence, conscientiousness, and conformity.
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prosperous family,
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cosmopolitan
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the road to academic success and the road to job success are paved with the same materials.
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conscientious worker labors until the job’s done right.
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Employers are running businesses, not logic classes.
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Locked-In Syndrome
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Education signals a package of socially desirable strengths.
Note:SOLO LÌ C È IL PACCHETTO...INTELL COSC E CONF SONO SEGNALABILI ANCHE SEPARATAMENTE

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the trifecta:
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probably strong in at least one, and woefully deficient in none.
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if you’re so smart, why didn’t you go to college?
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The higher your scores, the more suspicious your missing diploma becomes.
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If you have the work ethic to copy the dictionary by hand, completing college should be a cakewalk—unless
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“alternative” signals of conformity signal nonconformity.
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Telling employers, “I’m self-taught” or “I graduated from a brand-new Internet university” makes you sound weird.
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“I’m not Jewish, but I keep kosher to prove I can conform to intricate rules.”
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Students are supposed to graduate;
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Consider norms against bragging.
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while employers rarely request applicants’ standardized test scores, applicants remain free to provide these scores
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Few do. What do applicants have to lose?
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You’re doing something that’s “simply not done.”
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The process is self-reinforcing:
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Employers notice the link between success at school and success at work,
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Talented, motivated people notice education’s gatekeeping role, so
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The frequency of talented, motivated people without a strong academic record falls, tightening the link between success at school and success at work.
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alternatives to traditional education already exist,
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you face a stark choice: do what’s socially expected, or take your chances with the outcasts.
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In short, education suffers from what I call “locked-in syndrome.”
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Signaling “Simply Doesn’t Make Sense”
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it contradicts experience.
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the leading objections insist experience is deceiving.
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Signaling=100% signaling. The most egregious straw man treats signaling as all-or-nothing.
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curriculum clearly contains useful subjects;
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Signaling=“Signaling intelligence alone.”
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Then they demolish it.
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But so does an IQ test.
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Signaling shouldn’t take years.
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For many traits, however, there are no definitive “show-stopping”
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When the competition sends better signals and you don’t,
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A lazy rebel will toil and conform for two semesters if the wage is right.
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easy-to-fake traits like conscientiousness and conformity
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Giving up early is surrender.
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“You can’t fool the market for long.”
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employers discern their employees’ true productivity in a matter of months.
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companies rather quickly discover
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researchers explicitly gauge the speed of employer learning, the process seems to take years or decades, not months—especially
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This hardly makes signaling futile.
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reason to signal is to get your foot in the door—to
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it is no small affair.
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“You can’t fool the market for long” doesn’t imply “The market won’t overlook you forever.”
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employers can’t afford to give every applicant an interview,
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What’s a diamond in the rough to do? Get the credentials
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Becker’s critique also naively assumes that employers automatically dismiss any worker who falls short of expectations.
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firms are not run by robots.
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they develop fraternal feelings
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the blow to remaining workers’ morale.
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After a firm hires you, you’re part of the team.
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ALTERNATIVE...OTTIME REFERENZE

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“dehiring.”
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The more firms fear to fire, the more educational signaling matters.
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Relying on credentials is a good way to avoid getting stuck in the first place.
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Imagine, however, that you have the world’s only perfectly forged Harvard diploma. With any luck, you’ll ride the Harvard gravy train for years.
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Riddle Me This
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Higher education is the only product where the consumer tries to get as little out of it as possible.
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The best education in the world is already free.
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anyone can study at Princeton for free. While tuition is over $45,000 a year,42 anyone can show up and start attending classes.
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If you ask permission to sit in, most professors will be flattered. What a rare pleasure to teach someone who wants to learn!
Note:ONORATO

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you can have either a Princeton education without a diploma, or a Princeton diploma without an education.
Note:DILEMMA

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Failing versus forgetting.
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How would your career have been different if you flunked all the classes you’ve forgotten?
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failing a class and forgetting a class would have identical career consequences.
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claim studying a subject improves you in subtle ways
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Educational psychologists have spent a century measuring such subtle learning;
Note:UN SECOLO DI STUDI PER CAPIRE COSA

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My Spanish teachers’ official goal was to teach me Spanish. It was their native language.
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signaling can explain these facts without torturing them
Note:SOLUZIONE MOLTO PIù SEMPLICE

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you were lacking in intelligence, conscientiousness, and/or conformity—and
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Easy As.
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Students struggle to win admission to elite schools. Once they arrive, however, they hunt for professors with low expectations.
Note:ALLA RICERCA DEL PROF DALLA MANICA LARGA...PERCHè?

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George Mason students know I’m not an easy A; their future employers don’t. Anyone who likes money and dislikes studying has an obvious two-part strategy:
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Cheating.
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cheating is futile.
Note:NEL MODELLO DEL CAPITALE UMANO

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all educators who try to prevent cheating are wasting their time.
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All exams might as well be take-home.
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Signaling, in contrast, explains why cheating pays—and
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detecting and punishing cheaters preserve the signaling value
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Why do students rejoice when the teacher cancels class?
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If human capital purists are right, such jubilation is bizarre.
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Once they’re in college, myopic, immature students can unilaterally skip class whenever they like.
Note:ALL UNIVERSITA' NON CI SONO STUDENTI IMMATURI...ALMENO TRA I FREQUENTANTI

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When your teacher cancels class, everyone learns less, leaving your relative performance unimpaired.
Note:LA RISPOSTA OVVIA CHE IL PURISTA DEL CAPITALE UMANO NON PUO' ACCETTARE

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Lead into Gold
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education turns lead into gold.
Note:MAGIA

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both sculptors and appraisers have the power to raise the market value of a piece of stone. The sculptor raises the market value of a piece of stone by shaping it. The appraiser raises the market value of a piece of stone by judging it.
Note:ANALOGIA...COME ALZARE IL VALORE DI UNA PERSONA...PROFESSORE VALUTATORE...PERCENTUALI

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“How much of what we do is sculpting,
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PITTORE O SCULTORE?

Si puo’ valorizzare una pietra scolpendola o stimandola. Ci sono abili scultori e abili periti.
Domanda: l’insegnante (rispetto ai suoi ragazzi) è più scultore o perito?
Questo libro, facendosi forte dell'evidenza quotidiana, propende per la seconda ipotesi.


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SCOPIAZZARE O BIGIARE?

Perché gli studenti copiano? Se uno pensa che siano a scuola o all’università per imparare, allora copiare non ha senso. Ma anche impedire la copiatura con ronde tra i banchi sarebbe assurdo. Se la scuola rivendica una funzione formativa dovrebbe consentire che lo studente affronti gli esami in tutta tranquillità a casa sua. Qualora invece la scuola abbia la funzione di fornire credenziali tutto cio’ che vediamo nella realtà si spiega facilmente: impedire la copiatura preserva il valore segnaletico del titolo di studio.
Perché gli studenti esultano di fronte ad un’ora buca? Se a scuola si andasse per imparare, come vorrebbe la teoria del capitale umano, dovrebbero rattristarsi. Si puo’ pensare che gli studenti siano immaturi ma all’università l’ipotesi sembra forzata; non solo, all’università potrebbero saltare l’ora di lezione poiché la frequenza non è obbligatoria. La risposta più convincente sta nel fatto che l’ora buca costringe tutti a rinunciare senza penalizzare nessuno nella corsa al pezzo di carte, l’unica cosa che conta.


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SCUOLA SU, PROFESSORI GIU'

Gli studenti fanno di tutto per essere ammessi nelle scuole più prestigiose ed esigenti. Poi, quando sono dentro, fanno di tutto per avere i professori più “facili” e di manica larga. Questa modo di fare contrasta con l’assunto che si vada all’università per imparare. I datori di lavoro sanno quali sono le università più esigenti ma non sanno affatto distinguere tra professore e professore.


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NON SAPERE = DIMENTICARE

Come sarebbe cambiata la vostra carriera lavorativa se prima degli esami universitari che avete a suo tempo superato brillantemente la vostra preparazione fosse stata quella che avete ora? Presumo che la vostra preparazione odierna, a distanza di anni, sia vicina allo zero e che senza il titolo di studio con cui avete affrontato i vostri colloqui lavorativi non avreste ottenuto l’impiego che avete. Ma che differenza c’è tra “non sapere” e “dimenticare”? Nessuna, in fondo. Anche “dimenticare” è una forma di ignoranza.

Di fronte alla terribile equivalenza tra “non sapere” e “dimenticare” ci si rifugia in calcio d’angolo: studiare ti migliora anche se non impari (= dimentichi) quel che studi. La psicologia educativa lavora da un secolo senza successo per capire in cosa consista questo “miglioramento”. Molto più semplice assumere che l'istruzione formale abbia poco a che fare con l'apprendere e l'insegnare.


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