1 Oct
2011
1 Oct
'11
2:58 p.m.
On 01/10/11 1:47 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Err, no. That's a Ph.D. surely.
Ted Nelson, in his classic Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974):
'Swarthmore left me with an exaggerated notion of the extent to which
ideas are valued in the academic world; it took two graduate schools to
clear this up. After that, as far as I was concerned, Ph.D. stood for
Poophead.'
--Toby
Granted this is the UK, US might be different,
but why the need for a
piece of paper?
A piece of paper shows that the holder has at least some stamina and
backbone to actually finish something, in some official way.
More seriously, a first degree often shows you could be bothered to turn
up to the lectures and rememebr what you were told. A higher degree
should indicate that you have the ability to solve problems on your own,
which IMHO is a much more valuable skill (certainly for a job like this).
Note that a higher degree is not the _only_ way to show you have such
skills. I put no value at all on bits of paper...
-tony