Educationis Not About Having the Best Opinion

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Godyma: Education is not about figuring out which opinion you should hold. He says it's really about turning your mind into a tool that can achieve things. Godyma on how to get interested in i seing ats aplus : "I think we often, it's so rare, that we encounter it so rarely as students"

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.