The Idea of Real Education

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Most of the ideas in these great books are hard. They're not obvious. I don't know his stock. And that's a waste of time. That is a reasonable first reaction. Real education is when you real ise that an idea that you've read in one place is actually related to this other idea over here. When i put them together, i get something new. That's called thinking.

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.