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“The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.”

Amount Specialization

Book:Historians in the Middle Ages

Source: Historians in the Middle Ages

“Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.”

Thinking Important Facts Courses Realizing Theory Keys Consequence Dignity Factors Key To Success Comprehensive Specialization

Book:Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.”

Needs Increase Complexity Decrease Specialization

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.”

America Building Profession North America Specialization

Author:Arthur Erickson

“Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.”

Mean Individual Technology Magic Stress Visuals Literacy Specialization Fragmentation

Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.”

May War Results Technology Environment Military Dangerous Tasks Organization Combination Uncertain Professionalism Specialization Narrow-minded

Book:Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present

Source: Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present

“A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.”

Ifs Knows Men Way May Enough Loses Subjects Particular Fool Ought Capacity Silent Bounds Venture Lectures Specialization

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.”

Thinking Real Sometimes Age Lasts Interest Teaching Research Economics Financial Currents Journalism Mathematical Legacy Range Specialization Generalists

Author:Paul Samuelson

“If you want to succeed, limit yourself.”

Ifs Want Succeed Limits Specialization

Author:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.”

One Day Specialization

Author:Arthur Miller

“Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.”

Men Stills Animal Mankind Unique Kingdoms Physiological Specialization Animal Kingdom

Author:Rene Dubos

“The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.”

Thinking Trouble Professionalism Specialists Groove Specialization

Book:The Descent of Woman

Source: The Descent of Woman

“For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.”

Kind Different States Social Degrees Different Kinds Continuity Corresponding Classification Specialization Social Status

Book:A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives

Source: A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives

“It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.”

Source: Man the Unknown