Russ Roberts on Education

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🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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What do crossing rivers and investing in stocks have in common? Real education is seeing the connection between things that seem very different. EconTalk's host Russ Roberts talks about education with Alex Aragona of the podcast, The Curious Task. Roberts argues that the ability to apply insights from one area to another with which we're unfamiliar is one of the ways that real education differs from the mere accumulation of knowledge. And when we combine insights from two areas into something completely new, we can not only navigate rivers and stock markets, but also scale the heights of the human experience.

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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.
0:38.0	Something a little different today.
0:39.2	I was recently interviewed by Alex Eragona for the podcast The Curious Task from the Institute
0:45.4	for Liberal Studies where they explore economics, politics, philosophy, and other ideas from
0:49.9	the classical liberal perspective.
0:51.2	I was interviewed about the topic of education.
0:54.7	And so we are going to co-release this episode alongside the podcast The Curious Task.
1:00.8	It was recorded on March 7th, 2022.
1:05.7	Thank you for listening.
1:07.7	Our question today is, what's wrong with education?
1:10.8	And I think the best way to go about this one is really to start with your overall perspective
1:14.8	on what a good education might look like and how we might think on what an educated person
1:19.7	might truly look like and so on and so forth.
1:21.6	So as a jumping off point, I noted here, to start I would think is in a good place with
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