The venerable PhD once meant something. It meant that the holder had mastered a body of knowledge and then added something original to that body.
No more.
Now all it takes to get a PhD is patience and ass kissing.
The damage begins when they attain their exalted status. This is especially true of PhD's in education.
At that point they stop teaching or only teach graduate students to be clones of themselves. They direct pointless dissertations to the same end. The become whores of the corporate universities who are responsible for hustling grant money for their pimp institutions. They conduct spurious studies on trivial, hyper specialized studies that benefit the culture not at all. Then they write papers so jargon stuffed as to be unreadable to all but their limited peer group. Apparently, they think in the passive voice. They travel to narcissistic conferences where they babble in jargon to their peers. Worst of all, some numb nuts politician takes them seriously and makes bad policy out of their unscientific "studies."
In other words, they become destructive, self-replicating parasites.
So get rid of the cursed degree in every field but the hard sciences and math. If you got a real master's degree in a real subject you should be able to read, research and write from there on on your own.
If not, you got cheated.
~ mce
The only objective of true education is the drawing out of your true self. The rest is dross. ~ mce
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