We're not going to have any spoilers, i don't think, on the stories you tell book. The reason the book is so powerful is that you reflect on your own experience of being a student at columbia in the cor curriculum. And a lot of it involves what you call and what we call, i lam self, scrutiny,. But before we do, i want to talk about the phrase liberal arts, which i, for fun, said, we're the only liberal arts college in israel. I hate that phrase. It makes people think it's either about politics or sculpture. A liberal arts, what the heck is that? He often calls it real education, to try
How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on his own educational and life journey, Montás shows how great books don't just teach us stuff--they get inside us and make us who we are.