Why I'm Getting a PhD

Re:Why I'm Getting a PhD by blah32497 on Monday September 16, 2013 @11:49PM (#6397456)

You're right. I would just guess that most people are there there to learn and do research. And TA'ing takes away from that. But plenty of people do from PhD to teaching positions - in which case a TA'ship is perfect and gets your feet in the water.

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Re:Why I'm Getting a PhD by GuiA on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @02:53PM (#6401116)

I wouldn't necessarily agree that TA'ing takes away from teaching and learning. Many of the top researchers are also, in my experience, fantastic teachers.

I like to refer to Feynman's writings on this matter: http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html

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