Liberal education involves dialogue and debate. The books are an occasion to do that, he says. You need alive a kind of king, an objecting and responding individual. So yets accessible to books a much more profitably taken in as part of a conversation.
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.