Comments on: T-Shaped People & Philanthropy http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/t-shaped-people-philanthropy Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:42:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Stannard-Stockton http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/t-shaped-people-philanthropy/comment-page-1#comment-6133 Sean Stannard-Stockton Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:45:20 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/?p=1310#comment-6133 Thanks Lauren. It use to be that people went to school to be trained to work. Now, the best schools know that most people will not work in the area of their school major, that they'll change jobs many times and that they will need new skill sets often. So the best schools teach people how to learn rather than teach them specific skills. Sounds like Stanford is doing right by you! Thanks Lauren. It use to be that people went to school to be trained to work. Now, the best schools know that most people will not work in the area of their school major, that they’ll change jobs many times and that they will need new skill sets often. So the best schools teach people how to learn rather than teach them specific skills.

Sounds like Stanford is doing right by you!

]]> By: Lauren Finzer http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/t-shaped-people-philanthropy/comment-page-1#comment-6132 Lauren Finzer Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:24:01 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/?p=1310#comment-6132 Terrific post. I think your ideas about the need for consilience are right on target for philanthropy and other fields. And I agree that philanthropy can and should be the leader in creating consilience--that's what gets me most excited about the field. In response to the first part of the post, I think some of the interdisciplinary undergraduate programs springing up all over the US aim to create T-shaped people. They're designed to build the top of the T, with rigorous graduate training deepening the vertical leg. My fellow Human Biology undergraduates at Stanford, for example, benefit from a broad introduction to the biological and behavioral sciences. We build the tops of our T shapes by surveying disciplines including anthropology, psychology, economics, political science, sociology, biology, and more. We learn to digest diverse kinds of research. Then many Human Biology majors go on to medical school or other graduate training, deepening the vertical legs of their T's. Perhaps not directly relevant to philanthropy, but one example of an attempt to create synthesizing generalists that go on to become T-shaped people. Terrific post. I think your ideas about the need for consilience are right on target for philanthropy and other fields. And I agree that philanthropy can and should be the leader in creating consilience–that’s what gets me most excited about the field.

In response to the first part of the post, I think some of the interdisciplinary undergraduate programs springing up all over the US aim to create T-shaped people. They’re designed to build the top of the T, with rigorous graduate training deepening the vertical leg. My fellow Human Biology undergraduates at Stanford, for example, benefit from a broad introduction to the biological and behavioral sciences. We build the tops of our T shapes by surveying disciplines including anthropology, psychology, economics, political science, sociology, biology, and more. We learn to digest diverse kinds of research. Then many Human Biology majors go on to medical school or other graduate training, deepening the vertical legs of their T’s. Perhaps not directly relevant to philanthropy, but one example of an attempt to create synthesizing generalists that go on to become T-shaped people.

]]> By: @onlinegiving http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/02/t-shaped-people-philanthropy/comment-page-1#comment-6333 @onlinegiving Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:22:15 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/?p=1310#comment-6333 T-Shaped People & Philanthropy http://tinyurl.com/ck32ey T-Shaped People & Philanthropy http://tinyurl.com/ck32ey

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