Is it still valid to argue that most academics set out to create clones of
themselves when teaching undergraduates and PhD students?
They use to consider it a failure to "lose" a student to anything other than
a tenured position.
When even the best prof is unlikely to earn anything approaching as much as
an engineer, say, who has risen up the ranks to head a FTSE 100 company, and
many have, even if money isn't what you seek it seems perverse to insist
that satisfaction comes only from running on the academic treadmill.
I exclude from this argument those of us who decided to become PESTs, where
even an academic salary, especially the pension bit, looks like wealth.
MK
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: psci-com: on public engagement with science
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Avril Morrison
> Sent: 9 November 2008 16:31
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PSCI-COM] Losing Science/Technology Graduates
>
> This discussion of "what is a lost graduate" reminds me of the book,
> "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Disciplined-Minds-Critical-Professiona
> ls-Soul-Battering/dp/0742516857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid
> =1226247801&sr=8-1
>
> In this book he argues that scientists and engineers provide
> cheap labour
> and are attracted by the promise of a permanent tenured
> positon that very
> few will ever achieve.
>
> It is a thought provoking read, whether you agree with the
> conclusions or not.
>
> Avril
>
> http://understandingcancer.co.uk
> Next Course - Aberdeen - Saturday the 29th of Novebmer 2008.
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