This sharply critical approach of "ferreting out every hole in a student's thesis, tearing it to pieces, and teaching him to build it up again" is right in the tradition of the supervisory system.
這種「找出論文的每一個漏洞，把它整個『拆成廢墟』，再教學生重建起來」的尖刻批評態度，正是導師制的傳統。