Why aren't there more scholars who teach students to be generalists, to see the great connections? Instead, the academy encourages squirrel-like specialization. Too many universities have become professionalized information-transmission systems, when teaching should instead be this sort of relationship between the experienced and the young, on whom little now is lost. [ A short but intresting article apropo of the recent spate of articles building an educational philosophy meme. It draws similar conclusions to Papert, and while it offers no proposals in the limited space available, it compels an evaluation of the goals educators ought to set. -k] Learning to Think, and Live | 
