John Wheeler probably wins the prize for pithiest summation (and one of the best): “The reason Universities have students is so they can teach the Professors” (quoting from memory)<\/p>\n
Via Lance Fortnow<\/a>, a thought-provoking speech<\/a> by UCLA Professor Andrew Kahng on the role grad students can play in a University.<\/p>\n Of course, neither of these tells the whole story, by a long shot. But they’re both pretty worthwhile ideals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Wheeler probably wins the prize for pithiest summation (and one of the best): “The reason Universities have students is so they can teach the Professors” (quoting from memory) Via Lance Fortnow, a thought-provoking speech by UCLA Professor Andrew Kahng on the role grad students can play in a University. Of course, neither of these… Continue reading Why Universities take graduate students<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}