Education & Human Flourishing What Makes an Education Socially Valuable? We know how to calculate what a degree earns. We have a much harder time counting what an educated person makes possible in the lives of others. Victor Counted September 2026 The Flourishing Journal I have spent more of my life inside universities than most people spend in their first career. I earned two doctorates on two continents, one in health psychology (Western Sydney University, Australia) and one in religious studies (The University of Groningen, Netherlands). By the logic of a spreadsheet, I should be able to tell you exactly what that education was worth. But unfortunately, naively, I cannot.…