Esta dualidade já foi discutida no Professorices, se a memória não me falha. Tendo em atenção esta ideia, leia-se agora a proposta de T. Burke, dos EUA, para uma faculdade de letras. Eis um excerto (para os interessados sugiro a leitura do texto integral):
"A liberal arts college, on the other hand, should be encouraging exactly the opposite path of development in its faculty. Rather than rewarding professors for their increasing detailed expertise in a highly specialized area of research, it should reward them for broadening outwards from their initial base of knowledge, reward them for forging connections between disparate areas of knowledge, reward them for extending their work as intellectuals beyond the campus and beyond academia."