What Nassim Nicholas Taleb thinks about education

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Former option trader and risk analyst, now a distinguished professor at NYU. Author of the Incerto essay series, including The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness.

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   Our readingModern life has been fragilizing the economy, health, politics and education

   politics

   Their wordsWe have been fragilizing the economy, our health, political life, education, almost everything

   ↗Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Random House, 2012)archive.org All 14 from this book