The Future of Education

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There's something different about using your mind to sort of mix your mental labor, if you will, and come t with conclusions that you yourself own. With all this technology right at our finger tips, the sort of classroom style learning's a thing of the past. By them saying, we're goin to be able to do all these things, i think they're describing the problem with what we view education as it is.

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.