[AGL] "Dr" Jill Biden

[Bill Killeen]

I’m with Fontaine.  Please dump me, as well.

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> On Dec 16, 2020, at 6:24 AM, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  As you wish. 
> 
> On 12/16/2020 1:57 AM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:
>> You know, I don't have room in my life to read the babblings a foolish old men. Take me off of this list.
>> 
>>    Fontaine
>> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 06:58:14 PM CST, James Holland <jholland123 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The only time I see Ph.D. after my name is when I get the stuff from U.T.  I've managed to eliminate it elsewhere.  You're dead on about the title of Mr. at the better universities.  And about the usefulness of a humanities Ph.D.  
>> 
>> But an Ed. D. is Doctorate Lite.  Since the educationists substituted pedagogy itself as a degree at the expense of actual subject matter the public schools have been, if not completely screwed, at least fed the date rape drug.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Austin-ghetto-list [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net] On Behalf Of Michael Eisenstadt
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 11:52 AM
>> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
>> Subject: [AGL] "Dr" Jill Biden
>> 
>> First Lady-elect Jill Biden doesn’t even have a PhD, but instead an EdD, 
>> famous across academia for being an easy way for school administrators 
>> to inflate their credentials and get a bigger paycheck. While PhDs at 
>> least have to slave away for half a decade, balancing coursework and a 
>> dissertation with teaching requirements, Lady Biden’s degree was only a 
>> three-year part-time commitment. Not only that, but only a 2.75 
>> undergraduate GPA is required to enter the program. Cockburn has met 
>> furniture that could manage a 2.75 at American colleges (it helps if the 
>> furniture can play basketball).
>> 
>> When I got my Ph.D. I had to talk my mother out of addressing letters to 
>> me as Dr. Michael E... At classy universities, professors with Ph.D.s 
>> are addressed as Mister or Mrs. At community/junior colleges it is all 
>> the rage for marginal academics with Ph.D.'s in sports management or 
>> similar to insist on being called Doctor.
>> 
>> It is amusing how MLK is referred to as The Reverend Doctor Martin 
>> Luther King, Jr.. King got a Ph.D. in theology from Boston University 
>> but it has come out that he plagarized his Ph.D. dissertation. He is the 
>> only American who has a Federal holiday. So much for Washington and 
>> Lincoln, both bad whites. Still and all King advocated pacifism in the 
>> righteous struggle for civil rights for negroes and spoke out against 
>> the Viet Nam war. So all in all I count him as one of the good guys. Why 
>> he needed a Ph.D. escapes me. So he faked his dissertation. So what? I 
>> had an acquaintance, a gifted mathematician unable to complete his 
>> studies who solved that problem by conferring on himself a Ph.D. and put 
>> himself forth to the world as having a real Ph.D. Considering the work I 
>> had to do to earn a real Ph.D and for its utter uselessness for me in 
>> real life. I wish I had thought of Roy Lisker's stategem myself.
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