Froyd says a good education teaches you how to read and teachs you how to ask your own questions. But it's not easy to pick em up and read em your own, he adds. Theati: Can other thinkers provoke some of the same issues? And secondly, can you do it on your own?
How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on his own educational and life journey, Montás shows how great books don't just teach us stuff--they get inside us and make us who we are.