The financial model of higher education is failing. Some institutions that are invulnerable, but those are few. How do you bring together thinkers and the doers? How do you create in young people thoughtful people of action? I don't know any university that's sort of conceptualizing that now,. That's what we're trying to do. We're literally trying to think about that that that very issue.
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.