That is nearly the opposite of what the PhD was designed to do. Modern academic training comes out of the church and the old guilds of middle Europe and is still in use today in many fields (chefs and plumbers to name a few).<p>The Bachelor&#x27;s degree is loosely similar to an apprentice&#x27;s role. The young boy (they were almost exclusively male) worked in a shop or with a priest for some time. He learned the trade, the tools, and gained some experience from &#x27;level 0&#x27;. When you are done with the apprenticeship, you are &#x27;cleared&#x27; to work in other shops and are known to not be a total moron or break tools or burn down shops.<p>The master&#x27;s degree is just that. You are considered a master of the craft (like plumbing or prinitng) or the discipline (like The Book of Mark or Crusader History). As such, you typically have a master&#x27;s level project. Something that is &#x27;new&#x27; or shows that you know your stuff. That might be a very decorative silver bowl or a thesis.<p>The Doctorate means you are &#x27;world class.&#x27; Not just a mastery in a field, but a paragon of it. Today, that means that you are <i>the</i> expert in your little niche of underwater basket weaving. There should be no-one better than you. This means you MUST have produced something new or novel way of thinking about the God or something. This has always been the idea, if not the practice.<p>To change that and say that the doctorate should be the bachelor&#x27;s is very big. To suggest that PhDs should just replicate experiments is anathema to the idea of graduate education and would be a tremendous waste of time and energy. When you enter the Phd, you are assumed to already know how to do all the replication and the facts about the field. Granted, fields are exponentially larger than they were in the 1600&#x27;s, but you still should know stats and biology if your PhD is in cancer biology.<p>I think you are totally wrong about this. What you are suggesting should be covered in undergrad and I think it largely is.