"I find most of the current educational system around the world, whether it's in the united states here, it is reol high school or college, yet deeply disturbing," he says. "Everything i know about calculus came from schooland obviously everything i know about aa baseball came from not school." 'If you think about how much comes from conversations and how much comes out of your own reading outside of school,' argues Professor Obeidallah. "'We need to be serious about that amount of time doing that kind of thing?' I ask my students all the time' - professor obeidallah.'You're asleep seven, eight hours a day when you're younger', she adds
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.