You Don't Want to Read the Idiod and the Odyssey

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You spend a lot of time in school. Ye. Now, you can't learn every minute. It's not like o'. I'm not saying it's a wasted because you don't maximize how much time you been learn - lots of times learning takes place. We're not trying to learn when our brain is working on its own,. But as you suggest, the idea of sitting o chair, listening to a lecture and writing stuck down a son as you have to do that, i an i don't wato over romanticize real educationsad you need fact and you need an understanding of certain basic knowledged to be able to think.

What do crossing rivers and investing in stocks have in common? Real education is seeing the connection between things that seem very different. EconTalk's host Russ Roberts talks about education with Alex Aragona of the podcast, The Curious Task. Roberts argues that the ability to apply insights from one area to another with which we're unfamiliar is one of the ways that real education differs from the mere accumulation of knowledge. And when we combine insights from two areas into something completely new, we can not only navigate rivers and stock markets, but also scale the heights of the human experience.