Reminder that having a high level education, or even a PhD, doesn't mean you're smart, intelligent or in any way competent.

No, but it means you're patient, able to handle stress well and that you probably have aspirations to become someone important.

Depending on the company and project these can still be looked after qualities and especially with connection to the last one these people can easily get a bit full of themselves and are hard to work with/under

Kinda like doctors being elitist, but they do save lives so...

@Hazarth I've seen too many bad lecturers with PhDs to fully believe this

@LotsOfCaffeine
I don't have a PhD myself, a friend of mine is doing one though.

He has all the qualities I desribed but honestly he has no energy and I doubt he's passionate about the field.
Don't get me wrong, he's decent at it, but Im sure that as a teacher, he would be awful probably!

It's just my guess but I think a lot of people do PhD so they look more important in their job, and then eventually leave the industry and start reaching because they couldn't achieve what they wanted in the world and now they either don't care anymore or are actually broken.

Just my opinion though

@LotsOfCaffeine People who are good at learning aren’t necessarily good at teaching.

Most lecturers are probably primarily researchers and hate lecturing.

@nibor A minority in my experience but yeah, having a PhD or being a lecturer doesn't equate to being able or wanting to lecture students.