Pure education

ENAR

Education is the public good that, economically spoken, has the largest implications for development of human capital and wealth. At the same time, the public good of education is rooted in non-economic values that are not amenable to the profit motive. Moreover, this public good is based on human interaction, and ideas such as online college courses, for all their stickiness since the dawn of the collegiate internet, have not displaced the time-honored practices of tertiary education on physical campuses. Digitized education has at least until last year not transpired into the magnificent revolution of attainment and opportunity that social visionaries have been so fond of in their belief that the educated person will be the better person. But something has changed in the pandemic and infodemic of 2020. Thus today, education more than ever is among those fields that tech entrepreneurs, and the financiers, analysts, and facilitators of digital