Topic Discussion:To Be or Not to Be a Postgraduate

To be sure, there is a clear-cut distinction between the undergraduate and post-graduate(or AmE: graduate) education. Of what use is a college training ? William James once put forward an interesting answer in his article " The social value of the college-bred".That is to "help you to know a good man when you see him". What talk do we commonly hear about the contrast between college eduaction and the education which business or techical or professional schools confer? The college education is called higher because it is supposed to be so general and so disinterested. At the "schools" you get a relatively narrow pratice skill, you are told, whereas, the "college" gives you the more liberal culture, the broader outlook, the historical perspective, the philosophic atmosphere, or something which phrases of that sort try to express. ( This paragraph is taken from William James''''''''s artice above)In reality, the postgraduates are not students . Masters and doctors are junior and senior research fellows in a sense, respectively. The goal of postgraduate education is to train you to be an inquisitive and thoughtful and qualified researcher. Though I am not satisfied with our postgraduate eduaction program. Many postgraduates candidate take it for granted that post-graduate diploma is more valuabe and it will help them to find a better job. The most important task for post-graduate is to make yourself a qualifed quasi-scientist.