Posted on 11/20/2016 8:42:21 AM PST by wintertime
That is what my website is dedicated to help influence.
Education: get the feds OUT.
K-12 Schools: People of each state - abolish the corrupt state teachers unions, abolish forced payment for government schools, defy unconstitutional federal interference and bring back prayer, Bible, and the Constitution in the classroom, and local and family choice for education including home schooling.
Colleges and Universities: Godly Christian educators rise to the top, overturn the culture of leftist indoctrination, recreate a culture of genuine inquiry into the truth which is always Biblically based.
Entertainment: Godly Christians rise to the top of this business and promote faith and freedom.
Spiritual Revival: facilitated by reacquiring and contending for the gospel of the grace of Christ, "earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints" (Jude 3).
Given the nature of my research, I seriously doubt that anyone would have been happy with me trying to do it in a spare bedroom. I seem to like research that involves handling dangerous substances...
Indeed!
The biggest problem is simply “credentialitis”, companies preferring the person with a bachelors’ over an associate, giving pay raises automatically when someone has a master’s degree or doctorate (especially in government employment).
Only hire vets or those on work visas...no millennial snowflakes
Even fields that require lab skills do not necessarily need college. Apprenticeship could substitute.
That would depend on what kind of lab skills. There are tech schools that teach laboratory skills. However, I have a Ph.D.—I doubt that I could have done that level of research without university support.
The SAT and ACT have passed the biased test and is widely used by colleges and universities precisely because it has been judged to be non-discriminatory.
There are lots of private research facilities that are as well equipped as any university. What is the PhD, but a term of apprenticeship under an experienced researcher (professor)?
There are actually quite a few students who perform their research outside of the university environment. Students can do their research at a private company or government facility, as long as they are afforded the opportunity to think critically and problem-solve in pursuit of their degree.
However, all Ph.D. students must coordinate their studies with a university. Usually, they will have a mentor at the laboratory where they do their research, and mentors affiliated with the university who oversee their progress. There is no requirement for them to select mentors strictly from the university, as long as the mentors are qualified in the field. The degree itself is always granted by the university when the student can provide documentation that he/she has met the academic and research requirements for the degree. The student does this by submitting a dissertation.
One thing about a Ph.D. in a hard science is that it is much less likely to be influenced by the leftist cause du jour. Being that it takes an ability to think rationally to study hard sciences, nutjobs typically bypass the science and gravitate towards topics like sociology, where the scientific method does not exist and “research” consists of taking a supposition and cherry picking evidence and constructing plausible arguments to support it.
My husband ( Ph.D. in biochemistry) was a research team leader for a major chemical company . In the early 20th century history of his company doctoral level chemists were not common. Chemists ( and engineers) were trained within the company. As an incentive to the employee, and payback to the company, for all that training, employees were given very generous retirement packages.
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