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...Build the "generalist-specialist" to maintain cohesion...
...governors be allowed to draw up standards for certification of specialists. That modestly forward-looking proposal went to the house of delegates, where it was surprisingly defeated. Reason: many of the delegates are small, jack-of-all-fields practitioners who fear that an increase in specialization would narrow the generalist's practice. The vote effectively blocked action on specialization this year, but proponents of certification promise that they will try again...
...sense, however, the efficient "professional" Volunteer is as illusory as the catalytic "A.B. generalist" that the Peace Corps is fond of speaking about. There is even some inverse correlation between professional skills and job satisfaction in the Peace Corps. According to termination questionnaires, health workers are notably less satisfied than other Volunteers, one hypothesis being that nurses and technicians accustomed to American medical practices are bound to be disheartened at conditions they find overseas...
Once Moyers is gone, who-if anyone-will become the new primus"? Actually, it may take months for a successor to surface. When he does, he will almost certainly be a versatile, nimble-witted "generalist" rather than a narrow specialist. Johnson, as one aide puts it, likes men who can "go where the ball is." They serve him as a headquarters staff, husbanding his time and refining ideas for his easier digestion...
...result of the reappraisal at both schools is a growing emphasis on the humanities, to produce what M.I.T.'s Johnson calls "the true generalist capable of dealing with the great problems cutting across every area of our lives" and also what Caltech's DuBridge terms "literary people with a scientific point of view." Caltech offered a humanities major for the first time last year, already has more students majoring in humanities than in either geology or chemical engineering. M.I.T. now offers a humanities major, has three poets, two novelists, two composers and one expert in Old Testament history...