Scholarship Thrives on Peripheral Vision (opinion)

Scholarship Thrives on Peripheral Vision (opinion)

Don’t be limited by what’s straight ahead, David Labaree writes. The problem with scholarly focus is that it leads where you intend to go. And this is a problem because when you get there, you’re likely to find that your destination isn’t all that interesting. In practice, scholarship is not about effectively carrying out a plan but about exploring a terrain and developing the plan that is warranted by what you discover in that terrain.