The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (747 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0722X6L1B |
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| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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From one expert to another, & to the public To become a dentist, I had to study for From one expert to another, & to the public Charles D. Payet, DDS To become a dentist, I had to study for 4 years of college and another 4 years (40 hours/week) of dental school. Since graduation nearly 20 years ago, I have taken at least 1,500 hours of Continuing Education at my own expense. And yet, despite my best efforts to be an extraordinarily good dentist, I am now more aware than ever of how much more there is to learn and master. And that's in my own profession, in which people rely upon me as an expert! Neve. years of college and another From one expert to another, & to the public Charles D. Payet, DDS To become a dentist, I had to study for 4 years of college and another 4 years (40 hours/week) of dental school. Since graduation nearly 20 years ago, I have taken at least 1,500 hours of Continuing Education at my own expense. And yet, despite my best efforts to be an extraordinarily good dentist, I am now more aware than ever of how much more there is to learn and master. And that's in my own profession, in which people rely upon me as an expert! Neve. years (From one expert to another, & to the public Charles D. Payet, DDS To become a dentist, I had to study for 4 years of college and another 4 years (40 hours/week) of dental school. Since graduation nearly 20 years ago, I have taken at least 1,500 hours of Continuing Education at my own expense. And yet, despite my best efforts to be an extraordinarily good dentist, I am now more aware than ever of how much more there is to learn and master. And that's in my own profession, in which people rely upon me as an expert! Neve. 0 hours/week) of dental school. Since graduation nearly 20 years ago, I have taken at least 1,500 hours of Continuing Education at my own expense. And yet, despite my best efforts to be an extraordinarily good dentist, I am now more aware than ever of how much more there is to learn and master. And that's in my own profession, in which people rely upon me as an expert! Neve. "Outstanding read" according to Fred. The Death of Expertise is an eye opening book on why we in America have lost our way and struggle to find our way back to what a democracy is. People in American society believe equality means we are all as talented as an any other and that experts are nothing more than elites spewing their righteousness and knowledge in an effort to deceive. This is a major problem. Doctors, Lawyers, police officers and many other professionals find themselves being to. "This book really hits a nerve. It is such" according to janice williams. This book really hits a nerve. It is such a timely observation of how we think these days. There is a sense of urgency for me to finish this book and start applying the principals.
Today, everyone knows everything and all voices demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. Tom Nichols shows this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the Internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine. Nichols notes that when ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy - or in the worst case, a combination of both.. People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of educat