"In this context, one point should be mentioned, a point which I think may be connected with the crisis of the universities. It is this. More and more technicians are needed, and as a consequence, more and more Ph.D. students are trained only as technicians. Often they are trained only in a certain technique of measuring; and they are not even told what more fundamental problems are to be solved by the measurements they are doing for their doctor’s thesis. I regard this situation as inexcusable and irresponsible. I see in it a kind of breach of the Hippocratic Oath on the side of the academic teacher. For his task is to initiate the student into a tradition, and to explain to him the new great problems which arise through the growth of knowledge and which in their turn inspire and motivate all further growth." -Karl Popper. The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality. p.124
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