Dumber By Degree
On my way to work this morning I saw a Lexus with this vanity plate:
2MAS1PHD
I don't understand how someone with that much education doesn't see that he is living out a caricature. We all know one of those people, the one who manages to inform everyone he meets that he has a doctorate. I haven't done a formal sample, but it seems that the people most likely to do this are the ones with the least impressive degrees.
My own experience is that I feel stupider since earning my PhD. It reminds me of something Socrates supposedly said: "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
All of this mitigates, in other words, against advertising one's degrees on a license plate. Even though it would require an even bigger plate, perhaps Mr. 2MAS1PHD should go back to school. Apparently all that learning has yet to kick in.
Posted by Woodlief on February 23, 2007 at 11:17 AM