Rational Choices & Education

Can you make a rational choice in education? The truth is you can’t.

You don’t really know whether you are going to gain all of the benefits that you expected. You also don’t really understand what’s true cost are. The only time you have a pretty good understanding is with educational choices that are fairly standard.

If you go outside of those fairly standard educational choices, your guess is as good as mine.

What we do and perhaps encourage people to do is to allow them to make this rational choice and see the cost of benefits, very explicitly, but then as well think about how we can encourage people to not make explicit choices.

Having the information to make rational choices is one thing, allowing people to explore and pursue their passions is another.