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To: SeekAndFind
The paper would be full of words he thought were academic, writing the way he thought a college student should write, using big words he didn’t have command of.”

Sounds like Michelle Obama's thesis at Princeton!

6 posted on 08/26/2013 7:25:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Rummyfan

“Sounds like Michelle Obama’s thesis at Princeton!”
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As Christopher Hitchens wrote,
“I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”

I recall a line in one of Erskine Caldwell’s books, something like, “Possession of a hammer don’t make of a man a carpenter.” Likewise possession of a degree does not make a person educated. The degree used to be awarded to signify the attainment of an education but now there seems to be little or no connection between the two. If we could return to the old K-12 system people would finish high school with far more education than is now represented by a bachelor degree. Obviously a REAL education is far from being the goal of the modern system.


29 posted on 08/26/2013 7:52:42 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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