It is time we had an interdisciplinary world. It is time we created a society where all levels of thinking and society can work together – so the individual psychologies can live together in a more
integrated society. Interdisciplinary thinking tries to promote environmentalism, capitalism, religion, heroic
individualism, and families simultaneously. Beauty, truth, and ethics are united.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
So You Want to Get a Ph.D. in the Humanities
3 comments:
Internet John
said...
It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad. I spend a lot of time each day wondering if getting a Ph D is a career dead end. On the other hand, I'm dying of curiosity about topics that I'd otherwise have no time to research.
I do wonder about the bit re: the Tea Party. It seems to me that academics who fear that bottom-line oriented calls for fiscal responsibility will put them out of a job are admitting outright that their scholarly pursuits are basically frivolous. On the other hand, conservatism can tend to lend itself to a kind of "breezy philistinism."
You'll just have to live with your words, my friend! :-) Or post in a more timely manner. ;-)
I read somewhere that people who get their Ph.D.'s in the humanities should consider their scholarly work to be like doing art or creative writing: it's something you do in yuor spare time, no matter what your paying job may be. Seems to be the case. And it seems to be the case for far more Ph.D.'s than we realize (I wonder what the numbers are on those doing something other than their Ph.D. field -- surely someone had done that research).
RE: the Tea Party, the truth is probably somewhere inbetween. However, I will note that a study was done that showed the Tea Partiers to be more educated than the average population.
3 comments:
It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad. I spend a lot of time each day wondering if getting a Ph D is a career dead end. On the other hand, I'm dying of curiosity about topics that I'd otherwise have no time to research.
I do wonder about the bit re: the Tea Party. It seems to me that academics who fear that bottom-line oriented calls for fiscal responsibility will put them out of a job are admitting outright that their scholarly pursuits are basically frivolous. On the other hand, conservatism can tend to lend itself to a kind of "breezy philistinism."
Blog owner approval? Geez. How am I supposed to hysterically delete, edit, re-delete and re-edit my comments without seeing all the typos?
You'll just have to live with your words, my friend! :-) Or post in a more timely manner. ;-)
I read somewhere that people who get their Ph.D.'s in the humanities should consider their scholarly work to be like doing art or creative writing: it's something you do in yuor spare time, no matter what your paying job may be. Seems to be the case. And it seems to be the case for far more Ph.D.'s than we realize (I wonder what the numbers are on those doing something other than their Ph.D. field -- surely someone had done that research).
RE: the Tea Party, the truth is probably somewhere inbetween. However, I will note that a study was done that showed the Tea Partiers to be more educated than the average population.
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