Thete: I picked four thinkers who've had a big influence on my life. They are exemplary in two ways, he says. One is that they work very well for the purposes of liberal education. The other is that even though i'm not a specialist in these and i am not writing about them as a scholarly authority, i teach them as an authority.
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.