Hi Dick
I appreciate what you have said. But I don't understand how
"a personal exploration for better understanding of something" makes
a Ph.D. education unique.
I would think that to certain extent, personal exploration and development
exist, (or should exist), in all levels of education. Besides, what experience is
not personal?
Thanks Rosan
> Norm,
>
> Thanks for expressing what many of us believe is the essence of the
> Ph.D. in any field of inquiry. What you have described was the guiding
> instruction I received at the University of Chicago when I began my own
> doctoral study--and it w as the only reason I had for seeking the degree:
> to fulfill a personal exploration for better understanding of something
> that I had experienced many years before. Study for the Ph.D. is a
> remarkably personal experience, gradually validated and obj ectified by
> the mind grappling with difficult problems and seeking the best
> answers--the answers most grounded and defensible, as we are given the
> light to see. Aided by a master, who shares what he can, we slowly find
> our place in a very complex world. If we are very fortunate, our work
> may also help others to do the same.
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> Richard Buchanan, Ph.D.
> Professor and Head
> School of Design
> Carnegie Mellon University
>
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