It's amazing how defensive some people can become? It's just an anonymous poll.
-Helpmann![]()
I agree. Titles and degrees are not impressive and do not make you smart.
Lisc. Scandall, B.A., M.A., Ph.D, 1LT, USA, FUBAR
It's amazing how defensive some people can become? It's just an anonymous poll.
-Helpmann![]()
What's your Ph.D in?I agree. Titles and degrees are not impressive and do not make you smart.
Lisc. Scandall, B.A., M.A., Ph.D, 1LT, USA, FUBAR
What's your Ph.D in?
-Helpmann :ermm:
That's good to know, some people are (that is FUBAR.)It was a joke.
I tried make it look as sarcastic as I could.
EDITED TO INCLUDE: I am also not FUBAR
Scandall
That's good to know, some people are (that is FUBAR.)
-Helpmann :laugh:
I agree; just hope we're all getting that across to the young person on the Dominicans Abroad Forum who posted the question from whence the poll sprang.
I'm also conscious that even educational attainment is geographically modified. A B.A in US may not be of the same order as a B.A. in UK although the US Ph.D's are probably of a higher standard than UK ones..........
I presume Scandall's final qualification = fluffed up beyond all recognition....?I've actually got a real one which took some explaining....the professional social work qualification in UK many moons ago was a Diploma in Applied Social Studies.........you can guess the abbreviation, can't you?
would this be only given to men?? or do women qualify for this diploma?
btw: a little joke.
It's amazing how defensive some people can become? It's just an anonymous poll.
-Helpmann![]()
Yeah, but this poll is anonymous and voluntary??When it comes to education and money, people will always get defensive. This is the case wroldwide... Try asking everyone around at a cocktail party what their level of education is, where they got it from and how much they make and see what you get.
Try asking everyone around at a cocktail party what their level of education is, where they got it from and how much they make and see what you get.
It depends on where it's coming from, but sometimes, it's just innocent curiosity.I've had the same experience as well with some of my Dominican friends and associates. How much I made. How much is my house, how much is my car etc. But I also got the same questions when I was in poor countries in the far-east when the topic of money and cost and education came up. I think people at a certain economic level are interested in knowing because they don't have or want and knowing someone that does sparks their interest.
When I had hourly jobs, It didn't bother me to tell someone how much I made when they asked, but I never tell anyone my salary. I've even been asked many times by people that I work with in the same profession as myself, how much I make, and who may have similar saleries as myself but I know their just nosy and their motives are not as innocent or threatening as someone who is in a much lesser economic standing as myself.
LMAO, TD. Truth be told, only Dominican people have ever asked me these questions! As well as how much $$$ my parents made. I couldn't believe it, I almost choked when I was asked.
Hey, do you work at NASA? If so, are you in Pasadena?I've often wondered what is "an education." On the surface, it's obvious. But what does it mean beyond that? It almost sounds like an item.
The current head of NASA has a Ph.D, a B.S. and five M.S. degrees. Does he have "an education" or lots of "educations"? Does he have multiple items? I don't understand.
Once thing is certain: those with the highest level of "education," brag the least; it's the group in the middle (B.S./B.A.) who have a compelling need to show the rest of us uneducated nincompoops how much "gooder" they are.
My uneducated guess is that the more educated a person is, the humbler she becomes - Lambada, the gracious Pib, the GREAT Mondongo, Tordok, and my favorite Gibraltarian are a testament to that. And maybe they were humble from the "git-go," adding a different dimension to what it means to be educated.
-The Kid
My uneducated guess is that the more educated a person is, the humbler she becomes - Lambada, the gracious Pib, the GREAT Mondongo, Tordok, and my favorite Gibraltarian are a testament to that. And maybe they were humble from the "git-go," adding a different dimension to what it means to be educated.
-The Kid