Comments on: "If you're sure about everything, then you're dangerous." http://www.adambohannon.org/dangerous-2/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:02:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Natalie http://www.adambohannon.org/dangerous-2/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Natalie Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:15:01 +0000 http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=414#comment-359 "Over the past century the expert has dethroned the educated generalist, to become the sole model of intellectual accomplishment. Expertise has for sure had its moments. But the price of its dominance is enormous. Subject matters are broken up into smaller and smaller pieces, with increasing emphasis on the technical and the obscure." http://www.ted.com/talks/liz_coleman_s_call_to_reinvent_liberal_arts_education.html if you hadn't noticed, my interest has been piqued by your blogpost. “Over the past century the expert has dethroned the educated generalist, to become the sole model of intellectual accomplishment.

Expertise has for sure had its moments. But the price of its dominance is enormous. Subject matters are broken up into smaller and smaller pieces, with increasing emphasis on the technical and the obscure.”

http://www.ted.com/talks/liz_coleman_s_call_to_reinvent_liberal_arts_education.html

if you hadn’t noticed, my interest has been piqued by your blogpost.

]]> By: Natalie http://www.adambohannon.org/dangerous-2/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Natalie Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:36:00 +0000 http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=414#comment-358 this quote made me think about "disciplines": "artificial constraints lead to arbitrary distinctions and a skewed worldview" this quote made me think about “disciplines”: “artificial constraints lead to arbitrary distinctions and a skewed worldview”

]]> By: Natalie http://www.adambohannon.org/dangerous-2/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Natalie Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:22:35 +0000 http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=414#comment-360 I really like your budding thought of re-evaluating the "disciplines" we have so divisively created in the US education system (and also as it seems in other western education systems - i say western because these are the school systems i am familiar with. i do not know how other places like asia, or the middle east structure their education) nowadays, because, at least in some spheres, there is a growing trend to talk about interconnectivity and because of technology that gives us easy-access to this "bigger, interconnected picture" (seemingly almost all existing information is at our fingertips), it seems only natural that how we relate to information or "areas of inquiry" will evolve. should we try to control its evolution by explicitly reinventing, prescribing, and building new disciplines? (but that doesn't sound ideal, not enough freedom for the human genius to thrive :P ). i would imagine that a deconstruction of the structure of modern education would be the best answer... but probably also impossible. I really like your budding thought of re-evaluating the “disciplines” we have so divisively created in the US education system (and also as it seems in other western education systems – i say western because these are the school systems i am familiar with. i do not know how other places like asia, or the middle east structure their education)

nowadays, because, at least in some spheres, there is a growing trend to talk about interconnectivity and because of technology that gives us easy-access to this “bigger, interconnected picture” (seemingly almost all existing information is at our fingertips), it seems only natural that how we relate to information or “areas of inquiry” will evolve.

should we try to control its evolution by explicitly reinventing, prescribing, and building new disciplines? (but that doesn’t sound ideal, not enough freedom for the human genius to thrive :P ). i would imagine that a deconstruction of the structure of modern education would be the best answer… but probably also impossible.

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