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[quote=Anonymous]Has everyone considered that they should just focus on living their best life? Maybe they need the validation. Maybe they’re proud. Maybe they can’t dedicate 4-8 years full-time to a research program, but wanted to keep learning. Maybe they’re trying to buy respect to salve a fragile ego. Who’s cares? Call people what they want to be called.

Two other things about this threat had struck me.

1. Lots of people do things for ego, but DCUM seems to only feel ok calling it out when it’s perceived to be something that lower class, poorer, or less intelligent people do. We all have a coworker who subtly reminds us she when to an Ivy way too much. Isn’t that similar?

2. While I bet these things are correlated, I don’t think a specific degree alone is indicative of the things we’re talking about here. Harvard only granted EdDs (and not PhDs) in their grad school of education until very recently. Are Harvard EdDs in this group you’re all mocking? I am guessing there is a lot of in-group variation in any bucket like this. I know EdDs who could not have finished a “real” masters degree program at a reputable school and have fragile egos. I know at least one who is brilliant and a wonderful person. I know PhDs with fragile egos and near complexes about how they’re smarter than everyone else. I know some who are great. I have had a boss with an Ivy BA who was an idiot and a coworker with a BA from a terrible, for-profit school who was great. Maybe we should judge the individual?[/quote]

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