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# Bryan Caplan argues that modern education is more about “signaling” competence than about learning 

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##### [Bryan Caplan](/people/bryan-caplan)

Professor of Economics, George Mason University, and *New York Times* bestselling author of *Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration*