Why do people with Ed.Ds put DOCTOR ____ on *everything*?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not even a real doctorate. ex. Dr. Jill Biden, MCPS superintendent Dr. Jack R. Smith, and every school administrator I've ever met forces doctor.

Susan Rice has a real PhD but only goes by Mrs. Rice. Modest.

Jack Smith has a "real" PhD too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because they are some of the most insecure people out there who desperately wanted to be in academia and be Dr. but couldn’t get into a good PhD program, let alone ever come close to a real academic job. So they go into admin or some BS garbage “research” so they can flash the Dr. title.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't get a job in Germany or you’ll really be in for it. The Germans, especially the professional ones, are extremely anal when it comes to professionals titles.

That is a fact. Academics are very proud of their titles in Germany and they use them. I had a professor there who used two doctorates in her title. So she was addressed as Professor Dr. Dr. X. I found it a little odd at first, but that was her choice. Why are OP and others so incensed over persons simply choosing to use a legitimately earned academic title? To the pp who is proud of her mom for her accomplishment of earning an Ed.D, good for her. She has every right to be proud. If a person with an Ed.D chooses to be addressed as doctor, that should be up to them and it is not for OP or anyone else to denigrate that person’s accomplishments.

[Anonymous]

Ppl I used to work received their MBAs from UMUC and would proudly include that in their signatures. Whatever.

[Anonymous]

I knew someone who has a doctorate in music and goes by Dr. Now that is ridiculous!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a PhD. My colleagues (with and without PhDs) all call each other by our first names, but my degree is in my email sig as is customary for my company and job. When I’m introduced for take or such it’s always Dr. X. My Twitter handle is also Dr. X. But I would never make a peer or colleague call me that

I had one time I was working with an external partner (subcontractor on a project I was leading) who corrected me when I called him by his first name and he insisted on being called Dr. Y so I came back with “then you can call me Dr. X). I think that exchange in part had to do with the fact that I am a young white female and this person happened to be an older Black man whose degree came from an online for-profit university...

You do not come across favorably in this anecdote, PP.

[Anonymous]

Every Ed.D. I've ever met has been the biggest blowhard idiot and got their Ed.D. online from some scam racket college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't get a job in Germany or you’ll really be in for it. The Germans, especially the professional ones, are extremely anal when it comes to professionals titles.

That is a fact. Academics are very proud of their titles in Germany and they use them. I had a professor there who used two doctorates in her title. So she was addressed as Professor Dr. Dr. X. I found it a little odd at first, but that was her choice. Why are OP and others so incensed over persons simply choosing to use a legitimately earned academic title? To the pp who is proud of her mom for her accomplishment of earning an Ed.D, good for her. She has every right to be proud. If a person with an Ed.D chooses to be addressed as doctor, that should be up to them and it is not for OP or anyone else to denigrate that person’s accomplishments.

+1

Not just Germany. Nigerians will list every title under the sun they've earned (Chief Engineer Doctor Master) before their name when being announced in a formal setting.