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> Most teaching is done by non-generalists -- be it in schools, on TV, in documentaries, in courtrooms. So you believe K-8 teaching, the greatest amount of tea

> Most teaching is done by non-generalists -- be it in schools, on TV, in documentaries, in courtrooms. So you believe K-8 teaching, the greatest amount of teaching by far globally in the modern era, is done by non-generalists? Who specializes in arithmetic (number theorists and spreadsheet wizards aside)? If you define “pedagogy” as a specialty, perhaps, but that’s not the generalist/specialist discussion here. Even high school teachers generally only require a Bachelor’s degree...two years of content study (Junior-Senior...first two years is general education) out of an adult lifetime of, say, 50 years. Any “working professional” in a discipline wouldn’t count that for much. The media and courtroom teaching...you’d have to expand that discussion a bit for me to believe it. Law school, media studies...well, that’s another matter. It’s not that rare to contribute across multiple disciplines...the entire discipline of systems engineering is predicated on it. BTW: Can anyone summarize the thesis? This isn’t a tl;dr situation. I’m too old to read articles that look like the argument, if any, hinges on semantics with evidence that is, at best, anecdotal. (Frankly, we all are.) And so I don’t. PS: I really like the “>” indent style for quotations for block text in this UI.

gerdesj 6y ago
This is an experiment (I think) along the lines of the Turing test. I am quite pissed at the moment so take what I say with a pinch of salt! The text I see may not be the same as you. I see this nonsense: "It’s not difficult to imagine how this happened. The flip side of disaggregation is that each would-be expert is able to read broadly as well. The world of atomized content through hyper-specialization isn’t a stable equilibrium. We are all casual polymaths now." It is bollocks. Complete and utter rubbish. It superficially looks like ... something but it is cobblers.
dvt 6y ago
> So you believe K-8 teaching, the greatest amount of teaching by far globally in the modern era, is done by non-generalists? I think you're smart enough to know what I meant (and I even made the "of import" qualification). You don't need to hold a PhD in mathematics to teach kids their multiplication tables.
- haihaibye 6y ago
  I think you should have been explicit that you mean say advanced or post graduate education. Most people think there is great value in teaching people to read or learn simple maths.

gerdesj 6y ago

This is an experiment (I think) along the lines of the Turing test. I am quite pissed at the moment so take what I say with a pinch of salt! The text I see may not be the same as you. I see this nonsense: "It’s not difficult to imagine how this happened. The flip side of disaggregation is that each would-be expert is able to read broadly as well. The world of atomized content through hyper-specialization isn’t a stable equilibrium. We are all casual polymaths now." It is bollocks. Complete and utter rubbish. It superficially looks like ... something but it is cobblers.

dvt 6y ago

> So you believe K-8 teaching, the greatest amount of teaching by far globally in the modern era, is done by non-generalists? I think you're smart enough to know what I meant (and I even made the "of import" qualification). You don't need to hold a PhD in mathematics to teach kids their multiplication tables.

haihaibye 6y ago
I think you should have been explicit that you mean say advanced or post graduate education. Most people think there is great value in teaching people to read or learn simple maths.