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The PhD is never going to be "updated" because it has never been updated throughout its history. It will be obsoleted Education is changing before our eyes. Th
by seydor 4y ago
The PhD is never going to be "updated" because it has never been updated throughout its history. It will be obsoleted
Education is changing before our eyes. The world increasingly has all the material and resources to learn, customized and tailored to the ability of each student. There will soon be a tipping point where traditional school-based education becomes irrelevant, all-at-once
- nicce 4y ago> where traditional school-based education becomes irrelevant, all-at-once This is actually studied subject. Everyone needs general knowledge base before they even realise why they study at all. The whole point of university is to shape your thinking model. Even your movie experience will be downgraded. If you don't know Western fairytales, you will find Shrek movie unfunny.
- sambapa 4y agoI would rather have one anarchistic Leonardo da Vinci who doesn't give a fuck about Shrek than hordes of standarized, cookie-cutter groupthink people that find some capitalistic product funny.
- eesmith 4y ago> it has never been updated throughout its history As Wikipedia points out, "The doctorates in the higher faculties were quite different from the current PhD degree in that they were awarded for advanced scholarship, not original research. No dissertation or original work was required, only lengthy residency requirements and examinations." and "The doctorate of philosophy developed in Germany as the terminal teacher's credential." The modern system, with its focus on research training, is derived from Prussian educational reforms in the early 1800s, which then spread around the world.