[WikiEN-l] Paul Graham on credentialism

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/4/25 Charles Matthews 
>>  Which rather ducks the point that where
>> you go to graduate school would still matter enormously.  Why _are_
>> people hired in the basis of MBAs?
>>     
> I have a friend who's discovering that MBA is the degree after Ph.D if
> you don't want to be an academic. He says it's like doing flung monkey
> dung as a second language. Learning how to treat people as things for
> a living. I suppose that's shibboleths. I'm sure that's appallingly
> unfair to MBA degrees.
>   

I've always interpreted MBA as "Master of Bugger All".  Recent news 
items here have suggested that students in such programmes have the 
highest proportion of plagiarism and other forms of academic cheating.  
I suppose that that is what it takes for a successful business career.

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