※ 引述《ostine (没有头绪)》之铭言： : -------------------------------------- : 我想说的是，为什麽美国可以有这麽多先进的研究，因为他们考虑到这些研究者 : 所需要的是是什麽。一个PhD通常年纪都不小，应该是一个会有家庭的人，如果你无法 : 给他一个不需要担心经济问题的环境，他要怎麽做研究。（老哥同实验室的同学，还有 : 人也是有家庭的人，但是不需要辛苦的为他的经济担心） : 如果台湾的PhD，还需要兼家教，代表他的确无法专心他的研究，一个真正做研究的 : PhD（理工医学领域），是没什麽时间去打工的，有的话，通常念的年限会拖长。 : 当然这种奖学金不是人人能拿，但是我看不到台湾有奖学金可以这样支持一个有家庭 : 的PhD，光是这点，我们的环境就输掉一大节。 : 我对於要不要调涨奖助学金，也不是完全的赞同，因为这是很多问题的综合， : 不是一个单单调涨奖助学金就能解决的问题，但是对於台湾没有给於研究者一个好的 : 研究环境，绝对是台湾的问题！ : BTW，美国很多学校是私立的，代表他们背後有一堆的基金、财团支持，当然不需要政府 : 给钱，这是体制的问题。在台湾的教育体制，大学还没变法人之前，你很难叫政府不出钱 : 因为这些学校本来就是政府养，政府不出钱，谁要出钱？？ : 最後，我倾向於，没有一个完善的制度出现，的确要想办法调涨奖助学金，但是要怎麽给 : 很重要，而且硕士跟博士生应该要分开实施，毕竟修业年限及学生年龄结构不同。 It is good to have some real stories for references. I guess your brother should be a very good students, as I know, even American don't give every PhD student full scholarship. Only those who have shown very good potential can standout from the very strong competition. All the best to him and family. Back to the problem, we all know American are really rich. They probably can afford to give everybody scholarship but they haven't even done this. Suppose they do give the full scholarship to every PhD student, how do you recognise what could occur next? Simply, is the research quality in the system going to improve or drop? If your classmate only do half amount of your loads and get the same scholarship and will continue to obtain the scholarship next year? Will you work harder thereafter? I think we are hitting the foundamental value of the American system. American dream means the opportunities and success go to those who can accept hardship, who can take leadership and risks, who can face challenges, who can point out the right way for the rest, etc. In such system, no free money or equal support reall exists. The bonus and scholarship is quite high, higher than you can get in the rest of the world; however, the candidates must be also the best of the best. And this makes a reason why they always give the best results. This is also an important reason of that the US have become a single super power since 1945, and, conversely, another super power, the USSR disappeared finally, although initially they both controlled nearly equal parts of the world. I am not saying there are nobody can be qualified the best of the best and currently studying in Taiwan. However, I haven't seen any rule to determine that who is going to get such a good scholarship, suppose we are going to spend or to invest any money on any one of them. Some people did address similar ways to allocate such support or scholarship. However, there are always some others sticking on asking for free money equally allocated for everyone. This is basically the main point that we cannot agree. Fortunately, the living cost in Taiwan is not that expensive like in NY. In the long term, I am quite happy to see a good scholarship competition system can be launched in Taiwanese system, to push everybody doing their best. However, even so, the scholarship should not allocate for everyone. And those who cannot standout from the competition must expect to support their studies by themselves, I am afraid. Universities or schools are places of doing research, showing your potential, learning something, making your own beautiful future, etc. However, they are not least a group name of many shelter buildings nor even a charity society. --

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