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If we’re talking about altering society on a mass scale, you’re damned right I care about measurable outcomes.
I value freedom. I value economic consent. If you’re going to use centralized power to forcibly trade me something else for a loss of those two, the the other thing needs to be measurable.
I wasn’t talking to you.
Who’s forcing you to be educated/uneducated?
You’re missing the part where the current system effectively forces the poor to remain uneducated.
You were characterizing what I value, as a conservative. I’m agreeing; I’m not interested in “qualitative benefits”, that are not also quantifiable. Use of government power to alter the world must be justified with measurable metrics.
The problem with your viewpoint here is knowledge is inherently qualitative and therefore cannot be quantified.
Government successfully provides other qualitative services, knowledge is but one (or should be)