The Professor Is Not Dispensing Ledge

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University education is a factory, says Teyan. You can't discuss with the author directly and come to a richror deeper understanding through that process. The professor plays a very different role in that setin - he's at the font of wisdom. But my poisit tha, the professor is not dispensing ledge. He’s facilitating the acquisition of knowledge. It takes small classes, very skilled people to facilitate that conversation.

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.