She said there was a healthy shift away from what she described as the overspecialization of dancers in the. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Also, my personal intuition and experience suggests that overspecialization is extremely dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [Ricardo's Difficult Idea Eludes Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
That is, there is a huge monetary and social rewards to overspecialization. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Pursuit(s) | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference
Some sportswriters and myself have decried this overspecialization and complain. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-04-01] Reference
We have also tried to hold back because overspecialization also has other problems. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Addresses CUJAE Students] Reference
You're dead on about overspecialization... could that be a reason to forget the PhD?. From Wordnik.com. [Snell-Pym » Rebooting Me] Reference
I think the happiness surveyors are good examples of overspecialization and people with too much free time. From Wordnik.com. [Omniscient Voyeur, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Surely, your knowledge of natural history is not so puny that you're unaware that extinction is a consequence of overspecialization. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
The process of asset overspecialization and overdedication by network partners is frequently incremental and can therefore go unnoticed. From Wordnik.com. [Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame] Reference
As for the overspecialization critique — the charge that M.B.A. graduates are unable to see the big picture — that also doesn't withstand scrutiny. From Wordnik.com. [B-School Backlash] Reference
A narrow classification system invites the danger of overspecialization and lessens the team play which is so indispensable to all military enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Wesleyan had taken a stand against departments and the overspecialization of education in the late 1950s by creating the College of Letters and the College of Social Studies. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Roth: Universities in Crisis? From Compartmentalization to Collaboration] Reference
What all of the above point out, in various ways, is that the Big Three are victims of overspecialization in a special sense: They are all directly tied to the personal visions of their editors. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Three « Whatever] Reference
Modern medicine, he believes, is all mobbed up, filled with ruthless drug companies, corrupt doctors with deep conflicts of interest, overspecialization, overreliance on machines, and impersonal care. From Wordnik.com. [Shock of Gray] Reference
He knew that these would not be repaired or replaced; it was the same with every humanoid species he knew, and was assumed by the scientists of his own kind to be an evolutionary byproduct of overspecialization of the brain cell. From Wordnik.com. [Through The Eye Of A Needle]
This is everything Rorty aspired to escape: the language of overspecialization, of course, but even more, the evident shame that humanists feel for purveying "soft" knowledge, a shame that forces them to walk through a thicket of name-drops and if-you-wills before uttering the simplest commonplace. From Wordnik.com. [The Last American Philosopher?] Reference
So, even though I think Hacker, Dreifus and Taylor are right to worry about severe overspecialization (with its associated bureaucracy) in certain fields, I think they might say more about the positive feedback loop that can connect the classroom and the archive, the science lab and the lecture hall. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Roth: Virtuous Circle of Teaching and Research] Reference
I agree with the idea that overspecialization leads to evolutionary cul de sacs, but here's the thing. From Wordnik.com. [COMIXTALK] Reference
Rodriguez is eligible for free agency after this season, when the value of his overspecialization will be tested. From Wordnik.com. [SI.com] Reference
One of the great evils of modern life and modern education is overspecialization, and consequently the loss of sympathy between men of different pursuits. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
However, when it takes a minimum of two citizens and a absurd amount of time and / or resources to get a decent cashflow out of anything but silver, and with the overspecialization of most citizens, it's difficult to get the correct efficiency ratio. From Wordnik.com. [Talking About Games!] Reference
I would almost say that most autistics by definition have savant traits - not necessarily the dramatic skills associated with savant syndrome, but our brains focus and organize things in a specific way that lends itself to such overspecialization and splinter skills. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
What I’d like to counterbalance with the first quote I pulled is a definite suspicion of overspecialization that I have. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Pursuit(s) | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference
1 Universities have too many specializations within their liberal arts curriculum, which leads to overspecialization and pigeonholes the graduate in the eyes of the business world. From Wordnik.com. [Times are hard... for philosophers...] Reference
▶ 3 Responses is this academic orientation toward professional reproduction that new? really, what this suggests is that many disciplines are wandering back into the increasingly abstruse (ie irrelevant to those outside) – but through mere overspecialization rather than some underlying intellectual element (like, i don’t know, monasticism or hermeticism). his points in this excerpt are fairly obvious to anyone who has observed the following behaviors. From Wordnik.com. [Professionalization of Academia « Beki's Blog (there's an original name)] Reference
The perils of overspecialization?. From Wordnik.com. [When you're in a hole stop digging] Reference
I think it’s overspecialization. you specialize in too many things. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Too Smart to Become the Chess World Champion?] Reference
That said, I agree with Larry completely about some of the dangers of getting a PhD, i.e., overspecialization, small-thinking, and looking like "lines" rather than "snowballs. From Wordnik.com. [Concurring Opinions] Reference
Education, attempts at industrial, 201; commercialism in, 196, 201; in commercialism, 216; in technical schools, 201; lack of adaptation in, 199, 208, 212; of industrial workers, 180, 193, 199, 219; offset to overspecialization, 211; public school and, 190, 192; relation of, to the child, 180, 185, 193; relation of, to the immigrant, 181-186; university extension lectures and settlements, 199; workingmen's lecture courses, 214. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Social Ethics] Reference
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