What Brad DeLong thinks about education
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Brad DeLong has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingEngagement is not the same as understanding.
Their wordsEngagement, however, is not understanding, and a failure of comprehension is not a failure of memory.
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Their wordsThere is a great sense in which deep reading and substantial continued engagement builds one own cognitive knowledge structures in an important way.