Great education is transforming your brain to apply what you know to things you haven't before. To use the line that agnes cowlard used on econ, talk a o, learn how to talk to dead people. And ata a transcendent human experience. I think it's powerfuland in the way i would think of it, you talk about a sort of problem solving. That goes too far for me. Most of the interesting chalges in life you don't solve. You just deal with tem grapple with them, do the best you can, and get answers. A great lecturer can open your brain. But but the class room, seminar style grappling that we're talking
What is real education? What can colleges provide their students? Pano Kanelos, president of the new college-to-be in Austin, UATX, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of education, what the Great Books can teach us, and how we should rethink college education in today's world.