doctoral folly --ed. better than we think

[Guest guest]

Yes, I made the same point earlier. I think its important that we

understand that most masters degrees are a lot easier to get through

than anyone would expect. I have another masters degree from Boston

University---a very well respected school-- and we all had the same

thoughts while we were in school. Graduate school has always been

abotu what you put into it. We are shaming ourselves unfairly about

our education. I've also been told by a friend that an MD is nowhere

near as challenging to get through as people think (he said this while

in school getting his MD).

 

Laura

 

 

, JulieJ8 <Juliej8@b...> wrote:

>

> > IMO, most of our

> > students could not get into a real MA or MS program, and most of our

> > teachers could not teach in such programs.

>

> This is an interesting discussion. What do you mean most of our

students

> couldn't get into an MA or an MS program? Many of our students have

MAs and

> MSs (and three of mine are MDs), so that is clearly not true.

>

> One of my students has a MS from UCLA in engineering. He told me

that three

> of his teachers at Yo San are better than any teacher he had in any

of his

> other educational settings.

>

> Of course, this is just one isolated comment.

>

> Julie Chambers

[Guest guest]

I agree with you. My interest in ID problems was to find solutions and work

together to change things not run ourselves down. We are lacking

self-respect when we do this. Our profession is changing and must in order

that we have future opportunities to help even more people. We are

graduates from a wide variety of programs/apprenticeships. Changes that we

make to our profession are intended to make the future stronger not create

issues for ourselves. If we can learn to accept this than we can discuss

this without all of the emotional rhetoric. Sometimes we need to make

decisions that are best for the profession and not the individual. later

Mike W. Bowser, L Ac

 

> " heylaurag " <heylaurag

>

>

>Re: doctoral folly --ed. better than we think

>Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:00:45 -0000

>

>

>Yes, I made the same point earlier. I think its important that we

>understand that most masters degrees are a lot easier to get through

>than anyone would expect. I have another masters degree from Boston

>University---a very well respected school-- and we all had the same

>thoughts while we were in school. Graduate school has always been

>abotu what you put into it. We are shaming ourselves unfairly about

>our education. I've also been told by a friend that an MD is nowhere

>near as challenging to get through as people think (he said this while

>in school getting his MD).

>

>Laura

>

>

> , JulieJ8 <Juliej8@b...> wrote:

> >

> > > IMO, most of our

> > > students could not get into a real MA or MS program, and most of our

> > > teachers could not teach in such programs.

> >

> > This is an interesting discussion. What do you mean most of our

>students

> > couldn't get into an MA or an MS program? Many of our students have

>MAs and

> > MSs (and three of mine are MDs), so that is clearly not true.

> >

> > One of my students has a MS from UCLA in engineering. He told me

>that three

> > of his teachers at Yo San are better than any teacher he had in any

>of his

> > other educational settings.

> >

> > Of course, this is just one isolated comment.

> >

> > Julie Chambers

>

>

>