[ExI] jarring change

[William Flynn Wallace]

What jobs and careers actually require a Masters or
Bachelors -- as opposed to someone getting them because it's
expected?)  dan

If you are in higher education, a Ph. D. (or some other doctorate) is a
must unless you are thinking of teaching at a junior/community college or
high school.  A Master's in psych, for example, is a booby prize for those
who got in as a first year student, but did not pass the tests for entrance
to the doctoral program, given at the end of the first year..  bill w

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 1:18 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > Just a thought:  at the expensive universities it would be worth it a
> lot more if the world's greatest professors would actually teach classes,
> even at the intro level.  But no, TAs do all that or Assistant Profs.  Are
> the greatest teachers at Cal Tech or Yale etc.?  Very likely yes - but they
> don't teach - just a few, very few grad students, and those mostly because
> they help with the big prof's research program.
>
> I've heard that idea many times before. (In fact, I was a TA in
> school.:) Since the students are mostly there, if Caplan is right, for
> status reasons, maybe it wouldn't. If most are mainly getting a degree
> to improve their salary or status in society, then the content kind of
> becomes secondary and attempts to change this miss the mark. So maybe
> it's best that professors stick to research and a small body of really
> interested students/academics and let others do the actual teaching of
> the rest, no? (Actually, Caplan seems to want to move away from having
> the degree used as a signaling device, since it's a huge waste of time
> and effort. What jobs and careers actually require a Masters or
> Bachelors -- as opposed to someone getting them because it's
> expected?)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
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