Hedgehog or Fox?
Specialist or generalist?
Originally uploaded by dgray_xplane
I saw this diagram on the Communication Nation blog. This is a great blog for seeing stimulating ideas about how we communicate. As a geographer, I like the way the author uses a good old block diagram to show the difference between specialists and generalists. I am definitely one of the latter. Or, using a more classical approach the philosopher Isaiah Berlin quotes the Greek poet Archilochus who contrasts the fox who knows many things and the hedgehog who knows “one big thing”. i think every school needs a good combination of foxes and hedghogs, generalists and specialists.
