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General Education Has a Bad Rap
education has largely stopped serving its primary purpose, preparing young people to thrive and giving them the skills and the hunger to continue a lifelong journey of learning.
Anshar Seraphim • The Octopus Movement White Paper on Education: Solving the Unsolvable
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
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized world
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I was becoming a hoop-jumper just like Deresiewicz’s students at Yale, internalizing the idea that education is “doing your homework, getting the answers, acing the test.” I had not developed a sense that “something larger is at stake” as Deresiewicz says, and only was playing the game of student, not using my mind.