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{{a|design|[[File:Silo.png|450px|frameless|center]]}}{{quote|''A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.'' | {{a|design|[[File:Silo.png|450px|frameless|center]]}}{{quote|''A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.'' | ||
: | :Robert Heinlein | ||
''Universities bear some responsibility for its extinction. Classical Greece, Renaissance Italy and Victorian England all revered and rewarded generalists, for whom today universities have little or no space or patience. Enclosed departments in discrete spaces, with their own journals and jargons, are a legacy of lamentable, out-of-date ways of organising knowledge and work.'' | ''Universities bear some responsibility for its extinction. Classical Greece, Renaissance Italy and Victorian England all revered and rewarded generalists, for whom today universities have little or no space or patience. Enclosed departments in discrete spaces, with their own journals and jargons, are a legacy of lamentable, out-of-date ways of organising knowledge and work.'' | ||
: | :Felipe Fernández-Armesto, {{plainlink|https://www.timeshighereducation.com/comment/columnists/the-passing-of-the-polymaths/2019113.article|''Times Higher Educational Supplement''}}, March 2015}} | ||
Since the time of [[Adam Smith]] it has been a truism that specialisation enhances productivity. | Since the time of [[Adam Smith]] it has been a truism that specialisation enhances productivity. | ||