Scott Newstok on How to Think Like Shakespeare

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Author Scott Newstok of Rhodes College talks about his book, How to Think Like Shakespeare, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Newstok draws on Shakespeare and other great writers and thinkers to explore the nature of education and the life well-lived.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:32.1	Today is December 28, 2020, and my guest is author Scott Newsstock of Rhodes College.
0:37.1	He is the author of How to Think Like Shakespeare Lessons from a Renaissance Education, which
0:42.8	is our topic for today.
0:44.4	I want to thank Plantronics for providing today's guest with the Blackwire 5220 headset.
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0:57.4	Scott, welcome to econtalk.
0:58.6	Thanks for having me, Russ.
1:00.6	Let's start by talking about Shakespeare.
1:04.1	Shakespeare's difficult.
1:05.8	Not every student can quickly access Shakespeare.
1:08.6	A lot of them I think probably struggle to access Shakespeare even after a while.
1:14.4	Why should people reach Shakespeare today?
1:16.4	It's, you know, lived so long ago.
1:18.8	Is language is so difficult?
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