Post by jabinkhatun908 on Feb 25, 2024 10:07:36 GMT
Polymaths Today Swim Against the Tide. Certainly I Do Not Argue Against Specialization but Rather Against Hyperspecialization Which Can Produce a Certain Intellectual Myopia. Fortunately I Believe There Are Remedies for This Situation. One of Them is the Development of Advanced Study Centers That Offer Various Researchers the Possibility of Spending a Year Without Classes a Fact That as Has Already Been Demonstrated Gives Them Time to Think Reflect and Write but Also to Connect With Researchers From Other Disciplines. This is for Example the Case of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies.
The Second Possible Solution is the Formation of Focus and Work on a Specific Issue or Problem During a Certain Period. This Allows All Researchers to Observe the Same Problem but for Each One to Do So From Their Own Angle or Field of Study Connecting It With That of the Germany Mobile Number List Other. These Interdisciplinary Teams Could Function as a Kind of Collective Polymath Which Would Be an Interesting Possibility Especially if as I Unfortunately Fear Individual Polymaths Enter a Period of Further Decline Until Reaching a Possible Disappearance. The Last Remedy Consists of the Development of a Reform of Higher Education. I Have Participated in Some Projects of This Type Especially at the University of Sussex.
So I Am Aware of Both the Difficulties They Can Entail and the Resistance That Can Arise to Them. Certainly I Believe That a Good Reform Would Enable Students to Access Specialized Knowledge and Knowledge on Certain Subjects but Combining It With More General Perspectives of Knowledge. Fortunately There Are Already Universities Embarking on This Type of Projects Although It is Not Yet Clear Whether a New Generation of Polymaths Will Emerge From Them . I Must Say That Even if This New Generation of Polymaths Were Not Produced These Reforms Would Be of Enormous Importance to the Extent That They Allow Us to Broaden Our Horizons. So I Hope That More and More Universities From Different Countries Embark on Projects of This Type.