Academia:
BS degree: you know a little about everything in the field.
MS degree: You have chosen an area to learn more about, so now you know a bunch about some of the topic.
PhD: you have intensely studied a small sector or topic in your field: Now you know almost everything about very little.
Somewhere out there you know all there is to know about almost nothing.
Note the oil company folks, who often think 'out of the box' in order to find the next big play, are the ones who noticed...
I hate to bring up this subject, but it kinda spells out global warming. Massive glaciers...probably ten times the size of what we have today...likely came to slowly melt over the years, and dumped the water which rose and covered Doggerland. Course, this global warming....wasn’t created by man, but simply a natural occurrence.
This all brings up an interesting subject....are we truly finished with global warming, or do we have more ground to cover with water? And what happens when the great glacier periods return? Do we suddenly find Cuba connected to the US landmass? Do we suddenly find a giant open parking lot existing between Orlando and New Orleans?
Joe, here’s another version I learned as a child:
1. BS degree needs no translation.
2. MS degree = More of the Same.
3. PhD degree = Piled Higher and Deeper.