How long does it take to read The Case Against Education?
Bryan Douglas Caplan
The Case Against Education by Bryan Douglas Caplan takes about 7 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 395 pages, about 108,625 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Despite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative -- education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformityin other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.
Subjects: Vocational education, Aims and objectives, Finance, Labor supply, Educational sociology, Education
