[AGL] "Dr" Jill Biden

[Byron Allen Black]

Is this a new fad, like stuffing college kids in a Volkswagen or doing
panty-raids? (Sorry, I'm 11 time zones away so I don't keep up with what's
hot and what's not).

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 18:53, Bill Killeen <bill.killeen094 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I’m with Fontaine.  Please dump me, as well.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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> <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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