Why is a doctor called a doctor directly and a master called a graduate student? Don't be confused, what about insiders?

The ancient imperial examination system in China is the only way for poor students to change their own and their family's destiny. According to the different scale of taking the examination, people will also divide the imperial examination candidates into scholar, juren, Gong Shi and Jinshi.

Later, the imperial examination system was abolished, and the thinking of selecting talents in the imperial examination was adopted by later generations and turned into the current college entrance examination and various grade examinations afterwards. Therefore, people also think that undergraduates, graduate students, doctoral students and postdoctoral students are also the same as the grades in the imperial examination system. This concept is not completely correct, so let's introduce some doorways.

first of all, we should make clear the difference between academic qualifications and degrees. As the name implies, education refers to the learning experience, and it is the learning experience of studying in a nationally recognized school and obtaining a graduation permit through an examination (not counting the dropout), so the education can be primary school, middle school, junior college or undergraduate, graduate and so on.

A degree refers to a title awarded by a national institution of higher learning after passing the study. This title represents the recognition of your learning ability and professional ability by the state and institutions. So far, there are only three degrees in China, that is, bachelor, master and doctor. Many people think that postdoctoral work is a deeper degree after completing a doctor's degree, but this view is completely wrong. In essence, postdoctoral work belongs to a job position rather than a degree or degree.

According to the general cognition of the public at present, it is also wrong for undergraduates who graduate from universities to be graduate students after they have successfully taken the postgraduate entrance examination, and then graduate students to be doctoral students. According to the viewpoint stated above, graduate students are a degree and doctoral students are a degree. How can they be discussed together? Then why do people have such cognitive biases?

Undergraduates will begin to enter the postgraduate degree after successful postgraduate entrance examination, and the postgraduate study process is divided into two types: postgraduate and doctoral students (postgraduate is generally recognized as postgraduate). Moreover, if strict division is required, only students who have successfully graduated after completing the thesis and passing the examination and graduation defense can be called masters, otherwise they can only be called masters, and the same is true for doctors and doctoral students.

They are all graduate students, and there are many differences between graduate students and doctoral students. The training of graduate students in the college is mainly to cultivate their independent work and thinking ability and their concentration in scientific research; For doctoral students, it is mainly to cultivate the ability of innovation and team leadership. To make a simple analogy, a master's degree student can complete the experiment just like getting a step-by-step process instruction; Doctoral students, on the other hand, can try to figure out the ideas of their predecessors after getting the instructions, and then make new assumptions by themselves.

As for why the public will call master students as postgraduates and directly call doctoral students as doctors, the reason is that China has implemented such a degree system since January 1, 1981. At that time, there were very few undergraduates, even fewer postgraduates, and even fewer people were able to read doctoral students.