Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Are you tempted to just give these really smart 15-year-olds a hall pass to the library all day and some WiFi access, and then just leave them alone? Or do you think that they need some sort of structure? Tyler Cowen I think they need some structure, but you have to let them rebel against it and do their own thing. Zero structure strikes me as great for a few of them, but even for the super talented ones, it's not perfect. They need exposure to things, and they need some teachers as role models. So you want them to have some structure. If you read old books about education, there's a strong emphasis on moral instruction. Do you think that needs to be an important part of education? I'd like to see more data. But I suspect the best moral instruction is the teachers actually being good people. I think that works. But again, I'd like to see the data. But somehow getting up and lecturing them about the seven virtues or something. That seems to me to be a waste of time, and maybe even counterproductive. Now, the way I read your book about talent, it also seems like a critique of Bryan’s book, The Case Against Education.…

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