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Whom does he hire to help build those cars, rockets and tunnels? Graduates of universities or Oompa Loompas?
by projectramo 4y ago
Whom does he hire to help build those cars, rockets and tunnels? Graduates of universities or Oompa Loompas?
- jacobr1 4y agoTo charitably read and steel-man the GP's comment, one could argue that while undergraduate education is fine - there are better patterns of research - such as industry (bell labs, spaceX, google ml research), or government (oak ridge, NASA center). That the mixed mission between doing research and teaching at the same time in a T1 research university doesn't work as well as more formally separating those functions. I'm pretty sure I don't agree with the above ^, it probably discounts the value of grad-school research as an apprenticeship model amongst other drawbacks. But it does have some merit to bear consideration. Surely the current model isn't perfect - where could we improve?