Because of your expertise?

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I thought she was reliable.

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

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.

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I don't know if I want to live in a world where knowledge is obsolete.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

We have knowledge of the Yangtze and greater naval expertise

And suppose that there are only 300 certified wine experts in the entire world.

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

Tertiary educational application bundle

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

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 we need a lexicon. What is a lexicon?

Expert

What did you teach?

What do you practise?

A lexicon is a body of words that describes a domain.

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

Organic chemistry with a specialty in...

I'm a professional man.

These guys were philosophers of mind.

In every field, knowledge has exploded, but it has brought complexity, it has brought specialization.

I need to have a health care lexicon.

It extends opportunity to the rural centers, and we can use expertise in a very smart way.

And you know what?

You're going to stand in front of your parents.

Yes, point five, OK, OK, OK! (Laughter) I'm a designer, that's all, of Christmas gifts.

What is your profession, Mr...?

Because Grant's like me.

A warp field specialist? Exactly.

That's what you do.

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.

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.

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.

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

And we've got to say, what good is all of our intellectual and political and economic power and I'm really thinking intellectual power in this room if we can't use it to bring slavery to an end?

Not a shrink an executive counsellor.

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

What's your major?