Though liberal education still receives lip service, Hagstrom argues, current societal and financial pressures drive students to specialize -- a choice that leaves them with insufficient intellectual resources to connect diverse fields of knowledge.
During his tenure, he successfully led and managed investments, both domestic and international, in diverse fields of technology and services.
Companies like Infosys have already committed to retraining millions of workers in diverse fields in the path of automation.
The proposed Preamble states that: The DLSU General Education Curriculum is a set of foundational, formative, and integrative courses intended to inculcate in students a critical appreciation of the diverse fields of human knowledge, their principles and science, and their arts and methods of inquiry.
In another meta-analysis covering the impact of on-line training in diverse fields from school level to professional level [ 4], on-line training was associated with a higher gain in knowledge.
In making his argument, Gawande deftly weaves in examples of checklist successes in diverse fields like aviation and skyscraper construction.
Knowledge of the restoration-promoting characteristics of environments can serve people working in diverse fields, from architecture to nature conservation to transportation and urban planning.
And skills in leading and empowering tend to grow over time with diverse fields of experience.
As a consequence Cowell acquired an encyclopaedic knowledge in diverse fields, yet he was unable to spell or do arithmetic with any degree of proficiency.
