We're dividing a university now into five what we call centres of inquiry that are broadly thematic othere's tha centre for a politics, economics and applied history. They can take classes anywhere they want, but they'll be a junior fellow one of the centrs. So educate is a radically different model tho you'd find at most four year universities. But it is, as i said, it's either really elegant or really clumsy and awful.
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.