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nichomachus

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53. What people don't understand about post-graduate education

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 05:10 PM

Sep 2015

Is that it leads to specialization. For example, you start out studying English. Then, you narrow it down to Shakespeare. Then, you narrow that down to his sonnets. Then, you narrow that down to the grammar in his sonnets. Finally, you write your dissertation on "The misuse of the semi-colon in the later sonnets of Shakespeare." Just what the world has been waiting for.

As they say, when you do enough graduate work, you know more and more about less and less -- until pretty soon you know everything there is to know about nothing at all.

(You can use that on the next person waving their PhD around.)

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