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   From: grammatim@worldnet.att.net   
      
   mjoann wrote:   
   >   
   > TODD TAMANEND CLARK wrote:   
   > >>"mjoann" self-servingly announced:   
   > >>I choose to get ahead in life by working and earning my   
   > >>degree rather than playing off my great-great grandfather.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Degree singular?   
   >   
   > No, degree next.   
   >   
   > > You mean that you are somewhere in at least your forties   
   > > and have yet to complete even a bachelor's degree, and   
   > > yet are on here running off your mouth acting so superior   
   > > to others because they don't have a Ph.D.?   
   >   
   > Actually, I do have the bachelor's degree- summa cum laude, 4.0, awarded   
   > outstanding senior in my class for academic excellence at a large state   
   > university. The master's, is a 4.0 as well. I'm not even 30, though I am   
   > behind schedule due to a major illness I experienced a few years ago.   
   >   
   > I didn't say I'm superior to others who don't have a Ph.D.. In many   
   > fields, it doesn't matter; I don't expect the manager at the local   
   > grocery store to have one. However, I would expect anyone teaching at   
   > the college level, especially a department head, to have a Ph.D.. If   
      
   "Department head," or as they're called in this country,   
   chair(man/woman/person), is not a desirable position. Most professors   
   shun the "honor" because it involves hours of paper-shuffling and   
   grievance-hearing that take away much time from research and teaching.   
      
   In the British and European system, there's only one Professor per   
   department. And in Britain, the degree "Ph.D." is a fairly recent   
   innovation, added in imitation of the American system.   
   --   
   Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net   
      
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