Robert Solow: “Get used to it.”

I’m reading Robert Solow’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ by Thomas Piketty, reviewed | New Republic and I just came across an excellent example of one of the essences of good teaching. Here is the quote:

“…Reference to the capital-output or capital-income ratio is commonplace in economics. Get used to it…” [Italics added for emphasis.]

It reminds me of a t-shirt I saw at the Carnegie-Mellon bookstore. It looked like this:

Math Is Hard

So Is Life

Get Over It

Of course, the essence of teaching demonstrated here is honesty.

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