On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> I think most agree that professional success is not closely
> related to academic success, and it's possibly not unreasonable
> to tie scholarships to probabilities of professional success.

Ah, well in the united states, the purpose of the university system
is to turn out university professors, not "professional successes."

Read some of our trade journal whining about the lack of Engineering
PhD applicants, for instance.  No one quite says "there's a decline
in PhDs because an PhD is neither necessary or sufficient to do
"research" anywhere but a university", but a couple people come close.

BillW
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