Pano Kanelos on Education and UATX

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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What is real education? What can colleges provide their students? Pano Kanelos, president of the new college-to-be in Austin, UATX, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of education, what the Great Books can teach us, and how we should rethink college education in today's world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.6	You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is March 8, 2022 and I want to let listeners know about two reading opportunities in advance
0:43.5	of upcoming episodes in the next month or so.
0:45.2	I'm going to be talking about greed and Tolstoy and Adam Smith using the Tolstoy story,
0:50.8	Master and Man.
0:52.4	So please consider reading that story in advance.
0:55.0	And Dwayne Betts is going to be a return to econtalk to discuss Primo Levy and Ralph
0:58.9	Ellison and their books.
1:00.9	If this is a man by Levy and Levy's book The Truths, alongside Ellison's book Invisible
1:06.4	Man, you might want to do some of that reading in advance.
1:09.0	We'll have links to those books on the page for today's episode.
1:12.0	I want to thank my entronics for providing today's guest with the Blackwire 5220 and now
1:16.8	that guest, Pano Canalos, the founding president of the UATX.
1:21.1	A university to be established in Austin, Texas.
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