Is There a Limit to Calculus?

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Technology can be a great way to learn, but there's a limit. The interaction between the student's mind and the material needs to get better. Technology may work very well for acquisition of certain formal techniques like mathematics. But it doesn't work quite so well in smaller groups. It means if we want it to happen, we have to devote many more resources to it than we would otherwise.

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.