My final word in the “general vs. specialized education” debate

I’ve set­tled the “gen­eral vs. spe­cial­ized edu­ca­tion” debate for myself. Like this: “broad” knowl­edge from var­i­ous fields gives you good sup­port for suc­cess in your own industry. You get the chance to “peek”, as it were, at other fields and apply what you see in your own work; you get tools for creativity. Most inno­va­tions happen exactly this way: we take some­thing from biol­ogy and apply it in engi­neer­ing, we take mathematical models and apply them in design, and so on.