Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
I divide my time equally between teaching and research.
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the training and research that will make them world-renowned scientists.
The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.
I've learned a lot on the fly, and I think, actually, my academic and management consulting background has enabled me to quickly pick up on a lot of disciplines.
Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.