Chapter 3570 The Edge of Tomorrow (16)

Speaking of Schiller's teaching situation in recent years, it is also a bitter tears.

Currently, he has three doctoral students and five graduate students, and two doctoral students from other supervisors who have rotated over. In other words, he now has a total of ten students.

The value of master's and doctoral degrees in the United States is very high. The courses are difficult, thesis requirements are high, and the graduation cycle is long. About 30% of doctoral students cannot graduate for life.

In other words, one-third of American PhD students cannot obtain a doctorate degree for life.

This is even more true for prestigious universities. The rate of doctoral postponement at Gotham University has always maintained at more than 70%, and more than half of the doctoral postponement cannot graduate on time. There are also 40% of doctoral postponement for more than three years.

Take Bruce as an example. He seems to be quite outrageous - he has been in a few years and has not graduated from his doctorate. But in fact, this situation is very common at Gotham University, and some people who have delayed it for a longer time are.

A rotating doctoral student Schiller received last year is 42 years old this year. He has rotated 6 tutors, three of whom have retired, two have gone to other doctoral sites, and the last one is Schiller. And judging from the current situation, he still cannot graduate this year.

As far as Schiller knows, among the students who still cannot graduate from Gotham University, the oldest is 45 years old. Not only are they home and careers, but they have four master's degrees, and the only one has a doctorate degree.

Therefore, even if Bruce delays for another 10 years, he cannot be considered a difficult graduate student.

The main reason for this situation is that the doctoral graduation conditions at prestigious American universities are too harsh and have already reached the point of being non-human.

First of all, a doctorate does not just write a paper, but also requires advanced professional courses like undergraduates. There are 14 advanced professional courses in the subject of psychology alone, including three difficult courses, with an annual pass rate of 60%.

If you fail one course a year, you must retake it, and the course time is not allowed to be compressed. You must read this course again from the beginning.

After all the courses are finished, you have to take the exam, which is commonly known as the doctoral graduation exam. The difficulty of this exam is even more outrageous.

The comprehensive qualification examination for the psychology course in Schiller led by the psychology course will require a written test of 7 hours within one day, a clinical application test within three days, and a week-long subject analysis test.

After all, teachers from relevant majors in the school will judge the papers and give comprehensive scores together. Each person will only have three chances. If they fail the three exams, they will drop out of school directly.

After passing the exam, you still cannot start writing your paper directly. Instead, you have to take a essay writing training course for about two months. After passing the course, you still have to take the exam. Only after you finish the exam is the end of the training stage.

Most people need to take 3 to 4 years to complete the training stage. Even if they are super geniuses, they will take at least two years to complete all the classes and complete all the exams.

Only after you pass the training stage can you start to create your graduation thesis. The review standards for your doctoral graduation thesis are even more outrageous, that is, you can basically be called an expert in a certain sub-field and have world-class innovative achievements, so you can pass it.

Due to its unique regional attributes, Gotham University has quite good student qualities in the field of psychology. Currently, only one of Schiller’s five doctoral students has just started studying for a doctorate this year has not passed the comprehensive qualification test, and the others have already finished the exam and have started writing papers.

But when it comes to writing papers, Schiller is one and two big.

This makes it necessary to mention Schiller's own academic path.

In fact, when Schiller was an ordinary university professor in his previous life, he was not a very well-known figure, let alone an expert in the industry. In terms of academic level of psychological theory, he could only be said to be just a good deal and did not achieve anything worthy of surprise.

Because most of his energy is not focused on academic research, he only deals with errands when he goes to work, and most of the time he is just an ordinary university teacher.

However, after coming to DC, his predecessor was already a world-renowned psychologist. This psychology master was not something he could do if he wanted to do it.

It was not until this time that Schiller began to focus most of his energy on academics. Fortunately, his unique talent for psychoanalysis allowed him to be smooth in this regard and maintained his psychologist's personality well.

But speaking of this, before that, Anatoly, did not study theory, but focused on application directions. He did not study behavioral analysis or psychoanalysis - he did not study analytical methods at all.

After Schiller came, he turned to studying psychoanalysis, which did not surprise the industry, because most disciplines were like this: when he was young, he started from the application field, and in his later years he began to study pure theory.

This is because the fundamental purpose of all disciplines is actually to explore the world, and research theory is closer to exploring the truth of the universe. Every scientist who has achieved a certain level of academic achievements must have such a pursuit.

Schiller has so many students because he has a stunning knowledge of applied psychology and theoretical psychology and is well-known. Who doesn’t want an industry leader to be his mentor?

Moreover, all those who study psychology curse psychoanalysis while wanting to study psychoanalysis, and there is an idea that "this thing is too outrageous, I want to see what's going on."

In fact, Schiller's students have many empathy skills. There are many people who are born with empathy like Jenner, and some are even better than her talent. But this does not mean that they can write papers that are enough to make them graduate.

As we all know, empathy is to understand their mood at a certain moment by resonating with others, thereby analyzing their psychology and deriving a series of conclusions.

There is a problem among them, that is, the basis of empathy is emotion, and words cannot fully describe emotions. For human complex and beautiful emotional systems, all words are inconsistent with words.

The basis of empathy and psychoanalysis is emotion, but the basis of the paper is logic. Writing a psychoanalysis paper is to express emotions in logic, which is itself contradictory.

Many people feel this way when watching TV series or enjoying paintings, that is, the transmission of emotions is abstract.

When you see a picture or hear a certain kind of music, what appears in your mind is not an accurate word, but an abstract feeling.

How to summarize abstract feelings into logical inferences and vocabulary is the key to writing a good psychoanalysis paper.

However, most people can only focus on one thing: people with empathy will tend to describe abstract emotions too much, and people who are naturally rational and logically rigorous have no emotional experience.

Therefore, the papers Schiller's hand can be roughly summarized as two types of prose with rich emotions, beautiful words and eloquent explanatory texts. No one can perfectly combine them. This is really a sad story.

Of course, some people turn to studying behavioral analysis. However, as long as it is an analysis method, it is difficult to avoid studying emotions. Humans themselves are emotional animals, and the motivation for various behaviors cannot be based solely on rational logic, and they must have passion and impulsiveness.

How accurate is it when conducting pure logical analysis and how much nonsense there is when conducting emotional analysis. This makes many parts of their paper seem more difficult to understand than the delirium of hysterical patients.

It is difficult to correct this part because everyone has different feelings. Schiller told them that his experience is not fully understood by most people, and it is even more impossible to write something useful based on Schiller's experience. In the end, it depends on themselves.

Therefore, compared to the normal teaching process - students independently complete the results, teachers point out the shortcomings, students correct them, and improve their academic level - Schiller is more like playing a card draw game.

That is, do some work that looks like it is on the surface of teaching, but in fact it is just waiting for the shipment by luck: put the students there, wait for them to realize one day, integrate sentimentality and reason, achieve academic results and graduate; or finally realize that they are not suitable for studying psychology, so they simply give up and let each other go.

Of course, although helping them revise papers rarely helps them, Schiller will still work diligently to read everything they sent and give them advice as much as possible.

This is not for the sake of creating talents for the psychology community, but mainly to clear up responsibilities and make them realize that it is not a problem for mentors if they cannot graduate. This may speed up their giving up.

It is the same in any country. Responsible tutors are actually a minority, and those with both proficiency and responsibility are even rarer. Schiller's responsible attitude has made him well received by his students. Although some students say it is too strict, there are still a steady stream of students who want to apply for his graduate and doctoral degree every year.

Gotham University even caught a sheep and recruited new students for him while transferring the graduate students to him, which led to his card pool becoming more and more complicated, and the probability of getting a good card was lower. It was such a desperate story.

However, although he couldn't draw a serious intensity card, he was a full-blown acrobatic player. In addition to his serious paper level, he really wanted whatever he wanted. If he packaged it into a villain organization, he could probably shoot a suicide squad for about eight seasons, plus two games.

As the saying goes, if you learn psychology to the end, you will either die or be crazy. Most people who can learn this subject and survive under such academic pressure will be crazy.

Although antisocial personality is mostly natural, it may not be able to be shaped after all. There are many examples of revenge on society due to excessive pressure and mental disorders. However, in Gotham, people are not used to swinging swords at the weak, but are more precise, elegant and artistic.

After Schiller sent the email, he received a reply soon. As expected, the other party was unwilling to let him go, so he gave an address in the reply email and invited him to meet him.

Schiller was a little surprised to see the number on the address. It turned out to be in the activity building on the old campus of Gotham University.

After Gotham University relocated, the old campus was not completely demolished, and half of the land was sold, while the other half of the land was left to be an art museum and some teaching buildings for liberal arts and art disciplines.
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