If you know the field well enough to add to it and can defend your dissertation, you have earned your degree.
The full time job requirements are to limit the pool of applicants to the rich and those desperate enough to kiss however many rings and assholes demanded.
Einstein worked while pursuing his Ph.D. Think of the advances people with that philosophy have denied the world.
If you can do that, absolutely! But, I don’t think the vast majority can. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.
The requirements are there so that the time spent advising and laying students goes to those who will be most productive and are most serious about it. It has nothing to do with wanting rich people or brown nosers.
Why is a trust fund kid who can spend years working on a degree unproductively more serious than a person juggling a job and kids?
One of those can get multiple Ph.D.s and the other can’t get into school - regardless of how much insight the experience of a well rounded life brings to the research.
If you know the field well enough to add to it and can defend your dissertation, you have earned your degree.
The full time job requirements are to limit the pool of applicants to the rich and those desperate enough to kiss however many rings and assholes demanded.
Einstein worked while pursuing his Ph.D. Think of the advances people with that philosophy have denied the world.
If you can do that, absolutely! But, I don’t think the vast majority can. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.
The requirements are there so that the time spent advising and laying students goes to those who will be most productive and are most serious about it. It has nothing to do with wanting rich people or brown nosers.
Why is a trust fund kid who can spend years working on a degree unproductively more serious than a person juggling a job and kids?
One of those can get multiple Ph.D.s and the other can’t get into school - regardless of how much insight the experience of a well rounded life brings to the research.
Getting multiple PhDs doenst really make sense. I don’t know why someone would want to do that.
And you get paid for a PhD. Not well, but enough. Having a kid or family doesn’t keep you from it.
Now, before that, it’s a different story and some absolutely needs to be done about college costs in general.
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