Another treasure from the TED trove, this one featuring Bennington College President Liz Coleman. She calls for a radical re-orientation of higher education, drawing from her experience of transforming her own campus under the idea that "higher education is active pursuit -- a performing art."
An excerpt that was especially striking:
Over the past century, the expert has dethroned the educated generalist to become the sole model of intellectual accomplishment ... The progression of today's college student is to jettison every interest except one, and in that one to continue to narrow the focus, learning more and more about less and less. This, despite the evidence all around us about the interconnectedness of things.
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