Alright, which one of you guys is this? 29 degree's!

Yes, we do.

 

"There's no such thing as a free lunch."
W.C. Fields

It just means that the taxpayers paid his tuition. 22 Masters degrees? Do you really think that's "free?"

 

Is it the water in Michigan, or something? Here's another Michigan bloke with eleven advanced degrees, and the intent to collect lots more. And he's only 32, while Nicholson is 71. So if Bolger averages one a year, as he has so far, by the time he reaches Nicholson's age, he have an even fifty.
Graduate has 11 advanced degrees, and counting - USATODAY.com

As DXD says, "What a waist." (Something to do with fire in the belly, perhaps.)

 

TANSTAAFL, Heinlen

 

I guess it would have been more accurate to say that he probably had tuition benefits from his employer, WMU.

 

I suspect your right.

 

If you have lot of degrees without experiences would be worthless. For his case, he'll be Chief of Educators in Heaven.

 

A man with too many degrees is Randell123!!

 

Hi Randell,

Education should be used as a tool to help others, not a means to hoard up a stockpile of degrees for public recognition. I just find that life should have a balance to it. In life there is a season for everything, but when we fail to balance our life and allow it to be consumed by achievements, what becomes the meaning then? I'm not pessimistic at heart (in fact I live to be optimistic), yet I do believe I have a very realistic mindset about life. Let's just thing about the amount of time it takes to accomplish a degree. With time going toward study, preparation, research, compose essays, take tests, and for those going to B&M schools there is the time spend in class and the time to commute to class. A lot of time is spent on the portion of life I call "Education Preparation For the Future". This guy has been spending his time on countless degrees and honestly, I don't know if he has done much more than that (I cannot be his judge). However, I know that he had to study, he had to do all the things I said above; all of which consumes precious time that he could have use on other more precious things, such as spending time with family, building tighter family relationships, building a legacy for his family. I just feel, that 29, going on 30, degrees is way to much time consumed in school to where the bottom line perception is that he's doing it more for the recognition than for self-fulfillment (though I know one could say that he's producing self-fulfillment by gaining recognition). Anyways, I wouldn't spend my valuable time pursing more education than necessary to lead me toward building focusing on what matters most in life... positively affecting your community and people around you.

(I understand that there are different arguments on this case, none of which are falsely stated because opinions are true to the eye of the beholder. I just hope you realize my perception and hope it leads you to a clear understanding that can build off your own).

 

How many degrees needed for the parking lot?

I'm not a fan. IIRC, when I read about him, maybe 5 (of his) degrees back, I learned that his work career consisted of menial jobs on campus so he could get FREE TUITION. With 5 degrees, he was working in the parking lot while earning his Ed. D. - which I don't believe he put to use, any more than his other degrees.

He strikes me as a person who can only feel successful as a student. There are ski bums, tennis bums and his detractors might label Nicholson a "degree bum." He apparently denied himself and his family the benefits that could have come with a career at least somewhat consistent with his high level of formal education. I guess he could have been anything he wanted, but was completely devoid of aspirations beyond the classroom.

One, two (or even four or five) degrees have been life-transforming for many, many people. 29 degrees don't seem to have done anything for Nicholson. Classic case of over-compensation for his parents' lack of higher education, as I see it. Another "American Excess" story.

Johann

 

Only 11 advanced degrees? This guy's a lightweight!

 

Threads merged.

 

He would be better of getting a couple good degree from good universities rather multiples from third-rate. There's nothing more pathetic than the Ed.D from La Chapuza University who demand to be called "Dr".

Still he admits he's unambitious and does it just for recreation, so what's the harm?

 

Some day, we're going to have another thread about a man with twenty-odd master's degrees ... and I'll have to fess up that I'm that "which one of you guys?".

 

Not to worry, Ted. Just so long as there are no "too many posts" threads. :wink:

Johann

 

Around 2000, I had an instructor who had earned a Ph.D. in English about 25 years earlier. In 2000, she had neither learned to type nor to use a computer. Her doctoral field was Anglo-Saxon literature, so maybe she was a whiz with uncials and vellum, I dunno.

Johann

 

There is actually a "too many posts" thread. The original poster thought that Rich Douglas (who was still champion poster at the time) "posts too much." Rich pointed out that he had an average of 3.82 posts per day while I had almost 10 posts per day.

 

I think I have mentioned it before, but there is a car board that I am a member of, one of the mods there has well over a million posts. I think you are doing just fine Ted, but you do have your work cut out for you.

 

Wow, Ted! At 10 postings a day, it'll take you just over 270 years to hit a million! Cheer up! At 100 posts a day, you could do it in under 28 years...something to think about. :jester:

Johann

 

Unfortunately, my posts per day is now around 4.