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OK, so a fellowship is the government pays you to learn. I didn't know about that system before but it sounds like financial aid with a fancy title. Furthermore
by foxglacier 1y ago
OK, so a fellowship is the government pays you to learn. I didn't know about that system before but it sounds like financial aid with a fancy title. Furthermore, it's not science - the field is education. These fellows weren't part of a pipeline of experts. America isn't in danger of running out of the education part of developing experts, it has no shortage of degreed people.
- intended 1y agoAmerica is able to nurture experts in education to solve the issue of a pipeline of experts. That’s how advanced an economy it is. And this is being thrown away. Role models blaze pathways for others to follow. The create alternatives to ‘traditional’ examples of roles and jobs.
- foxglacier 1y agoI'm not sure experts in education are really doing anything important. Even when they do discover effective ways of educating students, they're rarely implemented. It's getting further from the core issue. If you go even further still, you could say we need to fund, say, car salesmen, because they're enabling experts to drive to work or some other very indirect benefit. Sure car salesmen are useful but, like education researchers, only a tiny portion of their work goes towards creating top scientists.
- UncleMeat 1y agoPhD programs are not "being paid to learn." You are paid to perform useful and novel labor whose output is shared with the rest of society.
- foxglacier 1y agoIt literally says "coursework and self-study", so paying them to learn is part of it.