Yep, over-reliance on rationality, overspecialization and dogmatic thinking are huge problems with the current academic landscape. Faraday and young Einstein t

Yep, over-reliance on rationality, overspecialization and dogmatic thinking are huge problems with the current academic landscape. Faraday and young Einstein thought about problems in a fundamentally different way. In fact, when Einstein became firmly entrenched in the establishment and started approaching everything from the math first perspective, he failed to make further progress. Another interesting anecdote is that on the crowd sourcing platform innocentive, the majority of problems (which have stumped fortune 500 R&D departments) are solved by people outside the domain of the problem.