Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:Photo grad school.
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:35:00 -0800
References: <v04011703b828452046ad@[66.81.51.16]>

>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
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