Scholar Quote by Stefan Klein

“The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his day-to-day life.”

— William Barrett

“At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a…

— Keith Stewart

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

— George Stigler

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is…

— Edward Jenks

Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to…

— Henry Giroux

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

— Richard M. Weaver

“One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of responsibility, between…

— Michael Pollan

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization…

— Michael Pollan

The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no…

— Tom Robbins

Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they…

— Thomas Pogge

The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with…

— Paul Ormerod

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is…

— John Kenneth Galbraith