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General Education Has a Bad Rap
Thus, this all begs the question, do modern schools actually build knowledge and capacity for all, or do they just reinforce old ideas of how industrial needs are met with a workforce? If schools are, at their fundamental level, designed to create the workers of the future, why are we still teaching siloed skills of the industrial age, when we have... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
Whether or not experience inevitably led to expertise, they agreed, depended entirely on the domain in question. Narrow experience made for better chess and poker players and firefighters, but not for better predictors of financial or political trends, or of how employees or patients would perform.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World a book by David Epstein
Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.