(2004-07-16) Coates Grad School

Tom Coates on Grad School culture. And here's the other lesson - doctoral work is Professional training. You have to think about it like that - you're being made into a lecturer / professor / teacher / researcher. The aim of doctoral (PhD) work is not - no matter what anyone tells you - to think up good stuff and write great works and reveal your Genius to the world. The aim is to make professional people who can teach undergraduates, deliver papers and - yes - also (subsequently) push the discipline further in one direction or another. (College Education)