2009/4/25 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: > Rather self-congratulatory on the grounds of US first degrees no longer > being particularly meaningful!
Paul Graham's stuff is always interesting, but sometimes just a little narrow ... the world is an MIT-orbiting technology startup. > 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. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
