Higher Degrees of College Professors: A Study of Some Factors Affecting the Research of Graduate Students Who Become College Professors

Autor: Karl J. Holzinger
Rok vydání: 1923
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Statistical Association. 18:878-888
ISSN: 1537-274X
0162-1459
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1923.10502119
Popis: By our requirements for degrees, by our system of examinations, by our insistence on irrelevant information and ridicule of desirable ignorance and promising mistakes, we crowd on fat when the athlete should be relieved of every superfluous ounce. The doctor's thesis is supposed to be the first productive work; it is completed at the average age of twenty-eight years and is likely to be the working over of the old ideas of an old professor. In the meanwhile the creative instinct has atrophied.'
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