From TillWinter's response: > Also: doing the master is to understand that you don't know anything, and doing your doctorate is to learn the others know nothing

From TillWinter's response: > Also: doing the master is to understand that you don't know anything, and doing your doctorate is to learn the others know nothing as well. I had always heard variations on the first part -- that going to a good school was supposed to humble you by showing you how much you don't actually know. Never heard the second part. That's great.