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Skills And Credentials Are Not Education

Pre-professional education—acquiring useful skills and credentials for accounting, computer science, or medicine—is valuable but is not the same as education; it tells you how to get somewhere (like Waze) but says nothing about where you should want to go.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

I like to make a distinction between where you're going and how to get there.

Source

Russ Roberts on EducationEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:10:03 AM

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