When you are on the Web you are having a unique experience. It is not a shared public experience that builds a sense of community. It is the precise opposite. We need to understand whether interprofessional education or collaborative education or both will enable our students to be more successful in a more complex world. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, programme a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
Well, I think an undergraduate curriculum committee might consider this overly ambitious, at least at our university. He concentrated not just on things, but also on connections and relationships. He certainly was an expert at that, but comprehensive analysis remains a discipline that is not yet widely understood or taught. Certainly teams are a reality of daily life in the corporate world. Companies that produce products and services regularly create teams from multiple divisions including design, manufacturing, marketing, engineering and finance.