I hang out with a lot of smart people. It doesn't make me any smarter. Kind of like having my office in my garage for a year and I am still no closer to being a car than when I moved in here to work.
On any given Sunday at the small church where I attend, around 50-60 people, there are about 6 PhDs. More than one in ten. I can do math a little, but not a lot.
One of the men in the church approached one of the PhDs and mentioned that he (not the PhD) was thinking about getting a PhD.
The gentleman with the PhD, old enough chronologically than two of any other PhDs
in the room spoke with the knowledge he gained through his academic studies and the wisdom of age, "Why would you want to do that? PhDs only quote other PhDs."
The world is small among the PhD types. Only they know what each other is talking about. What does their studies have to do with the rest of us?
I have a PhD. I got mine online, so some claim it was ground out by a diploma mill. It lacks prestige. There's no ivy hanging off my frame.
Whatever. (I've learned the lingo of the young folk, eh?)
My dissertation was written over three years, and field tested for three years beyond that in the schools in Japan. It is still being used in some classrooms. Hmm...but I didn't think to quote a bunch of other rabbis, um, PhDs that I might have.
Bummer. I guess I'll go back to my garage.
Why would you want a PhD?
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