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As a person with such a degree, I can tell you that getting a PhD to teach is basically like getting a Lamborghini as a daily driver. Wildly impractical, a PhD
by omgJustTest 3y ago
As a person with such a degree, I can tell you that getting a PhD to teach is basically like getting a Lamborghini as a daily driver. Wildly impractical, a PhD is for teaching is primarily a gate-keeping methodology which finds it's true power in the, sometimes literal, indoctrination of the future generations.
For this purpose I feel as though it is justified, however there is also a ponzification of bestowed PhDs, where novelty and published research may become so tangential or new that the field literally doesn't exist and might never be useful. For this purpose, a PhD feels like the "other" bin, the world doesn't have a name for it or the PhD holder claims that no other label fits.
- MichaelRo 3y agoWhen I was doing my PhD in mathematics in Romania, I had a colleague who was a high school math teacher also getting a PhD in math, so I got intrigued. I get my PhD to access better paid quant jobs in finance, can't see where you could use yours. Turns out a high school teacher that gets a PhD in his teaching domain gets automatically promoted to the highest class of salary achievable as a teacher. My brother is also a high school math teacher, he's reasonably well paid (higher than the average salary in the country) but took him 25 years and a lot of exams to get the "grades" to get here. A PhD program takes 3 years, if you can do it it shortcuts a lot of time. Now I should say that I'm getting 4x the salary of my brother so the paradigm "teaching pays peanuts compared to IT" still holds.