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b"What do crossing rivers and investing in stocks have in common? Real education is seeing the\\xa0connection between things that seem very different. EconTalk's host Russ Roberts talks about education with\\xa0Alex Aragona of the podcast, The Curious Task. Roberts argues that\\xa0the 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."