ABSTRACT
In its current global form, education does not increase happiness except when it leads to a better paying job!1 Does this mean that schooling based on the principles of human capital and the industrial-consumer paradigm have stripped education of the possibility of helping people live a happy life other than just getting a better job? Does this mean that students in current human capital-oriented schooling are not finding pleasure in their studies except from the hope of getting a good-paying job? Do people today value education only as preparation for employment?
