15.Professional development

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If you are a parent, you voice your opinions from a parent's stand point.

Because of your expertise?

I thought she was reliable.

If we are to shift paradigms, if we are to make breakthroughs, if we are to destroy myths, we need to create an environment in which expert ideas are battling it out, in which we're bringing in new, diverse, discordant, heretical views into the discussion, fearlessly, in the knowledge that progress comes about, not only from the creation of ideas, but also from their destruction and also from the knowledge that, by surrounding ourselves by divergent, discordant, heretical views.

This brew oversimplification of civic engagement, idealization of the expert, fragmentation of knowledge, emphasis on technical mastery, neutrality as a condition of academic integrity is toxic when it comes to pursuing the vital connections between education and the public good, between intellectual integrity and human freedom, which were at the heart (Applause) of the challenge posed to and by my European colleagues.

He is a specialist in sustainable development.

His lack of technical knowledge precluded him from promotion.

His lack of technical knowledge kept him from being promoted.

Well, Tibor really started the studio, called M amp Co.

I don't know if I want to live in a world where knowledge is obsolete.

His lack of technical knowledge kept him from being promoted.

See, he needs someone with expertise someone who knows what he's doing.

You're a forensics expert now?

Can you tell us what are the social responsibilities that someone who gets power because they learned about technology should have?

In fact for 30 40 years this was the canonical model for how to build startups and we'd say marketing, well, we understand.

But Starkwood... they had both. The technology and the expertise.

We have knowledge of the Yangtze and greater naval expertise

I would gladly defer to your medical expertise.

Absolutely. I am no expert. I defer to you, Anthony.

Trixie. Section Research and Development.

And actually the second general hospital in Vienna, in about 1850, was where we started to build out an entire curriculum for teaching med students specialties.

And this is one of the beauties of exchange, is it actually creates the momentum for more specialization, which creates the momentum for more exchange and so on.

Yeah, look at this. You know, all kinds of different ...

And the limiting step here wasn't the unknown diversity of life, but rather the taxonomic specialists who can identify and catalog these species that became the limiting step.

Because together, they can provide access to music for all children.

OK, but those are very specific, narrow tasks, and most knowledge workers are actually generalists.

The good news, again, is that a lot of the things they need we already have, and we are very good at giving economic assistance, not just money, but expertise, technology, knowhow, private investment, fair terms of trade, medicine, education, technical support for training for their police forces to become more effective, for their anti terror forces to become more efficient.

Expert

What did you teach?

What do you practise?

It's a very challenging idea to anyone who has invested an enormous amount of time and expertise, and who has a lot of energy invested in the notion that he or she knows better than everyone else.

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This kind of specialized knowledge has very little to do with daily life.

Open the gate.

Dave How much experience would students need to have to be able to start doing this?

This is a very extraordinarily visual.

Organic chemistry with a specialty in...

And I was saying, and I wrote, But we don't have the time, and we really don't have the immediate expertise at a technical level.

I became an industrial engineer, engineer in product development, and I focused on appropriate detection technologies, actually the first appropriate technologies for developing countries.

I'm a professional man.

These guys were philosophers of mind.

There's more to this company than just the equipments, the inventory and the cash.

I mean, you being a chemist and all.