The Authority of Ideas: Decoding the DNA of Education in Search of Actual Knowledge.<br /><br />Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, Economist, Former President of Harvard<br /><br />What will historians say about us 250 years from now? Larry Summers, former Harvard University president and economic adviser to President Obama, asks this question in a thought-provoking eSeminar about the evolution of ideas and the critical importance of education in an increasingly multi-faceted world. This will be a moment in history when the world evolved from a world governed by the idea of authority to a world governed by the authority of ideas, says Summers. Then he tells you how to be a part of the next great revolution.<br /><br />The Floating University<br />Originally released September 2011.<br /><br />Additional Lectures: <br />Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk<br /><br />Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem?)<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vr44C_G0-o<br /><br />Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE<br /><br />Leon Botstein: Art Now (Aesthetics Across Music, Painting, Architecture, Movies, and More.)<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6F-sHhmfrY<br /><br />Tamar Gendler: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Politics and Economics<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8asJxdcds<br /><br />Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadBvDPeE4E<br /><br />Paul Bloom: The Psychology of Everything: What Compassion, Racism, and Sex tell us about Human Nature<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328wX2x_s5g<br /><br />Saul Levmore: Monopolies as an Introduction to Economics<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2qHyF-8u8
