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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9210122.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SPECIALIST NARROW EXCLUSIVE KNOW SKILL INTEGRITY 921012 Because we are all finite we cannot do everything which we might want or desire to do. We cannot acquire all knowledge and skills. We can acquire only limited amounts of knowledge and skills. As the totality of human knowledge and skills increases each human acquires a smaller and smaller fraction of all possible human knowledge and skills. The increase in the total collection of human knowledge and skills leads inevitably to the increase of human specialization; the focusing of human attention on decreasing fractions of all that humans know and can do. As specialization becomes more and more pervasive we need to guard against thinking and feeling that specialists are in some sense special, more valuable and more worthy of respect. Such attitudes are misleading, for if we focus our attention too narrowly and exclusively upon some tiny fraction of all knowledge and skills we may exclude from consideration knowledge and skills which are essential to personal and communal integrity. Specialization is not worthy of respect if it entails excluding from consideration knowledge and skills which are essential to personal and communal integrity. Most forms of specialization have traditionally entailed narrowing their foci of consideration to some subset of all possibilities in such a way that connections to other forms of knowledge and skills are greatly reduced. When specialists specialize in this way, they cease to be able to communicate with each other meaningfully, and cease to be able to communicate with members of the general public; they lose touch with reality. Such exclusive specialization does not merit respect. We need a greater emphasis upon a new kind of specialization; a kind where connections to various other specializations and specialists are nurtured and encouraged, to maximize communication through open and honest dialogue. This new kind of specialization will need to be nurtured with a clear conception of what integrative purposes it will serve. It cannot be nurtured as a competitor for respect and attention through playing the same old games for attention and support as have traditionally been played by other specialists. The true specialists in inter-connecting other specialists will be different kinds of specialists than have been the specialists in isolated exclusive specialties which have shown little interest in promoting open and honest dialogue, personal integrity and communal integrity. A proliferation of exclusive and narrow specialists in the absence of a growth in new integrative specialists in inter-connection, is a proliferation which will act as a cancer in the body politic. Such a proliferation will sap energy, funds, creativity, and imagination while generating forgetfulness, confusion, garbage, and chaos. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================