The morale of the story is colleges expect us to be great in the box thinkers, students who are able to strategize and succeed within a set of defined parameters.
Typically, the most important figures in a given cluster of thinkers (perhaps three or four men) would jockey for centrality while cultivating alliances with other thinkers or students on the margins.
The sometimes skillful work of his speechwriters, which he sometimes delivers with conviction, cannot disguise the fact that he is not a deep thinker, a student of ideas, or even a very curious man.
The more pressure placed on a teacher to produce a perfect product or test score, the fewer creative process-oriented teachers you will have and the even fewer creative thinkers as students.
"I never really considered him to be a deep thinker and student of the game, although he was actually in love with the game as a player," he said.
He is a criminal investigator and a musician; a creative man and a tactical thinker; a student of human nature and a determined guy.
He insists that the university still welcomes free thinkers: "We select students who we believe are going to be critical, thoughtful, think about their studies and their futures.
In June a network of young economics students, thinkers and writers set up Rethinking Economics, a campaign group to challenge what they say is the predominant narrative in the subject.
Right now, for example, we're seeing a slew of lefty thinkers paint college students as pampered PC babies who want trigger warnings on everything from syllabi to their lunch and, most recently, a former feminist idol bashing the work that came after her.
Discussing the concept of evolution across a broad array of disciplines can create more informed thinkers, researchers, and students and has the power to ultimately cause a better integrated and knowledgeable literature through the fostering and development of cross-disciplinary collaborations.
