• mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    How people can walk out of a university with degrees and not understand how all areas of knowledge contribute towards each other and link together in ways that are not immediately obvious astounds me.

    • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      because of a long established undercurrent of competition within departments (and even between professors) for recognition and advancement. That and there are some people that have very large but very fragile egos that can’t allow another person or discipline to grab more sunlight than them.