Monday, March 12, 2007

EPISODE 33: Gifts AGAIN? and My Degree


An email from Diane re-opened the wound so we had to discuss her discussion of Group Gifts. See her whole post HERE.

Also, Derek takes issue with people using their College Degree or Masters to justify themselves for correcting people.

Let us know what YOU think! Post a comment on the blog or email us at mannerscast@gmail.com, and we'll make an effort to talk about your comment on the podcast.

Trent

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The opposite problem of having people throw their degree at you as a way of sounding like they KNOW, is people throwing your degree at you and EXPECTING you to know everything related vaguely to what you studied. Having a PhD in Biology apparently qualifies me to know EVERYTHING about all living things, disease...and actually I should also know quite a lot about medicine!? People actually want medical tips for their afflictions from me...and i just feel like....what the heck is that all about? Plus, most people who have PhDs are specialists in a very specific part of their field, so what is up with expecting us to know everything about everything??

The MannersCast said...

Ha Ha!!!

More compelling content from our Zürich bureau. I hadn't thought of it going that direction!

I guess it's a little like someone thinking that since I have passed my driver's test, I should know how to rebuild an engine.

Trent