We hope the discussion in these pages has provided a starting (or continuing) point for discussion and debate about the preparation of future scholars in educational administration. As planners of advanced preparation programs, we would do well to step back and ask ourselves why we believe doctoral study is important for our students. We contend that doctoral study can help students become more learned about educational administration, but it also ought to teach them to think, inquire, reason, write, articulate, communicate, and negotiate differences. These habits of scholarship are not skills limited to use in research—they are life skills. Although practicing administrators and university faculty belong to different communities of practice, our hope is that by embracing this broader notion of scholarship, we can one day belong to a single community of scholars.