The Authority of Ideas: Decoding the DNA of Education in Search of Actual Knowledge.

Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, Economist, Former President of Harvard

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.

The Floating University
Originally released September 2011.

Additional Lectures:
Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk

Joel Cohen: An Introduction to Demography (Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vr44C_G0-o

Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE

Leon Botstein: Art Now (Aesthetics Across Music, Painting, Architecture, Movies, and More.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6F-sHhmfrY

Tamar Gendler: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Politics and Economics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8asJxdcds

Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wadBvDPeE4E

Paul Bloom: The Psychology of Everything: What Compassion, Racism, and Sex tell us about Human Nature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328wX2x_s5g

Saul Levmore: Monopolies as an Introduction to Economics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2qHyF-8u8