Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Another factor is that it is pretty hard, at least in my neck of the woods, >not to bean a couple of humanities PhD graduates with any randomly thrown >brick. No offence but they are rather thick on the ground. Surprised there >has not been some sort of mandatory cull yet.[snip] >John Collier The same is true where I'm from and - I suspect - in the states in general and much of Europe as well. Gotta say that I don't think it will be necessary to discourage folks from pursuing advanced degrees in the humanities in the future. The PhD glut of the '80s and '90s coupled with a serious lack of full-time jobs for about ten years now (it's just cheaper to hire twice the number of part-timers) has probably done more to make young students think twice about studying something as frivolous as philosophy, art or literature than any amount of counseling I could imagine... Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html