“The value of education is not that you are better than others, it's that you're better than the you that doesn't have education. If the only value you see in education is "can be used to get a better job" you are valuing jobs -- not productivity or wealth or wellbeing but the mere existence of employment -- over almost everything else. You're welcome to do that, but it's choice you're making, not some fundamental truth about the universe, and other people aren't wrong for disagreeing. For most of human history education existed and jobs did not, and there's a least some chance that will be true again in the future...”