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CLMN | It’s ALL about EVERYTHING

24/10/2012

There are many things important to humanity. One of them could be the diversity of interests that single individuals possess. Some are sinking in the technology ocean, the others race with newest design trend lines. Some of us are poets, some read poetry, the others, on the other hand, in general don’t give a hoot about rhyming words.

Yes, this diversity of people and their interests is extremely important. It benefits us professionally and individually. We develop faster, sink deeper, see broader. In sum, we achieve higher goals in our societies and in personal lives. Highly skilled engineers work in the laboratories devoted to the development of fancy technologies easing people’s lives. Some anthropologists are still bite by bite tasting the origins and evolution of our societies and cultures.  

Now, this diversity of people and their interests is important also because there should be a flow from one side to the other. From engineer to anthropologist, from designer to technician and then reversed. The knowledge exchange circle. Running like a fast river. We are worth much less, if we are only interested in what we know the best. And university is the place, where this idea is or at least should be explicitly exposed. We study to be universal. To be not only mathematicians, but as well to know something about theater, visual art, music… That’s how it all started in the Ancient Greece.

That’s how I hope our education and thirst for knowledge will continue to be. And at the end, I just want to say: let’s be interested in more than what we see and have around us. Let’s know more!

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