We have done such a great job in dividing education into different disciplines that most students don't even consider learning other disciplines, let alone mastering them. Even those who realize the complexity of the World's problems offer collaboration among 'experts' as the way to go. Here is a statement by one such person:
Big problems don't come in disciplinary packages. If we're going to solve them, it's going to require diverse expertise working collaboratively. – Dean Deborah Stipek, Stanford.
I have different take on this. I can't forgo the pleasure of knowing everything that I have access to. My contention is that if anyone doesn't like a subject, it is only because they didn't learn it properly. I see no reason in constraining our expertise to one specialization. So,
Big problems don't come in disciplinary packages. If you want to solve them, you need diverse expertise.
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