10 10 2007 Wed, 10 Oct 2007Equivocality in education (and in professional life): It is the fabric, the great, pervasive underlying substance, of most amassed collegiate knowledge, particularly of the liberal artsy stuff -- like a huge, pulsating galactic mass of sticky, gelatinous, non-setting glue that holds the whole educational bailiwick flimsily but tenaciously together. Success in managing equivocality is the main educational goal, and most undoubtedly the best-paying career skill. The luxuries of that pursuit are not so generally afforded by math and science, but it is a fine forte for politicians, managers, Sunday-school teachers, shrinks, lawyers, and, indeed, most professional people, including almost all college professors and charismatic dictators.
(One may presume that inability to deal with equivocality is the fault with autistic persons and geeks (who can, in some cases, fill the portions of their brains normally reserved for equivocality management with rare savant capabilities)).
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