Interesting perspective. From my preparation for Oxford, it seems like this has been the accepted way of processing the vast quantity of information assigned by tutors for some time (i.e. pre-computing explosion of words available to read).
It seems like universities may do well to focus on having professors who teach and professors who research, instead of splitting the attention of each teacher between both tasks.
A fascinating discussion. I tend to agree that science has become far too commercialized and mainstream for multifaceted ‘geniuses’ like Da Vinci. Is this bad? Practically, no. It’s not very exciting though.