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Issue: In our time, specialists of all kinds are highly over-rated. We need more generalists--people who can provide broad perspectives. In my opinion, specialists of all kinds are not highly over-rated, and in an era of information explode and rapid technology development, both specialists and generalists are needed to reach a equilibrium, with which our society can move on healthily and high-rocked. Specialists, who can devote themselves into a certain field, might always be highly possible to bring about breakthroughs in that field. As we all know, no one individual can possibly digest and assimilate all of the knowledge in any given area now. It is only through each of the narrowly focussed individuals, who have a limited energy inherently, at each step that a true accomplishment and an ultimate triumph might be achieved. Take a magnifying glass as an example; it can set a fire only by congregating all the sun rays it has received into a single point . Similarly, if there is no Marie Curie's a life time of devoting into the researching of radium, how can radium ever be found and then benefit so many scientific fields (domains, subject) such as medicine, physics, chemists?
Furthermore, in some circumstances, we need specialists from all kinds of field more than generalists. One apt example is the building of the San Francisco Bridge. As one of the world's longest bridge, it's accomplishment lays crucially on the toils and moils of various kinds of specialists, like architects, physicists, mathematicians, and materialists. After all, you could never count on--even millions of Mr.-who-knows-everything, to compute the sophisticated mathematical operation, to deal with the intractable physics problems, or to scheme out the graceful structure. But, a man who knows everything is not necessarily a man who knows nothing. Actually, generalists and only generalists can see a broad enough picture macroscopically to control the holistic direction of social development. Take car manufacturing as an example, those accessories such as screws, tyres, and motors, which produced by all kinds of specialists on product line, should be assembled by a person, who knows where each parts belong to, then assembles out a car. If each person at the factory just focuses on their own goals, producing more screws, more tyres, more motors, but no one coordinate their work, Could we get anything more than piles of useless accessories? The same is true for the running of a community, a society, a nation, or even the whole human races. Generalists could stifle individual specialists for the greater good of all when we “get enough accessories”. Think about nuclear researches, no one would argue that free them without any restrain amount to suicide of human race. Somehow, there is not a clear boundary between specialists and generalists, a specialist who studies his own subject often find those problems forced him to seek the answer from knowledge in other fields, and after he comes out of the confusion of those problems, he may already become a specialist of that field. Such as Leonard D. Vinci, a encyclopaedic person of his era, is an excellent artist, and when he came to the problem how to draw the configuration of a person well, he turned out to a anatomist, then after astonished by the perfect proportion of human body, he became a mathematician, then a physicist... Examples like this are numerous, but I think this is enough. In a sum, specialists drive us forward in a series of thrusts while generalists make sure we wouldn't lose our way and know consciously what the stakes are. Both of them are equally important. 自己改了几遍 再也发现不了问题了 求高手指教！！ | 
发表于 2010-3-16 16:27:07
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