... educated fools running around too. Watch TV news and note the poor grammar, misspellings, and plain ignorance.
road to nowhere ...
Without getting too specific (still "in" and undercover), I got my grad degree fairly early after college. Although my father and grandfather were elders, it was not an issue since I lived about a half hour from the campus (a relatively good State Univ) and just commuted. I even temporary pioneered often while an undergrad to keep the heat off everyone.
Anyway, my wife got her grad degree about 20 years later, in her mid 40's. She did the "every other weekend" thing on site for a year and a half and studied the rest of the time on her own.
I was shocked by some classes in which group work (peer review) was involved in which the writing by many of the students wasn't, in my opinion, even at a high school level. Not just misspellings, but I mean major grammar issues; not knowing when to use "there and their," "accept and except," comparing two things and using "this verses that" instead of using the proper word versus. Come on now, we are not talking about verses in a song! Then the screwing up of the proper verb forms and ... well ... let's just say I was totally shocked. She had four others in her group; one was very good, one was OK, and the other two were not in any way graduate material, at least in the Organizational Behavior course she was taking.
They had to do a final paper reviewing the work of another group. My wife asked me to read it and give my own opinion to her. I started to read it after they all compiled their information together (sort of a bummer to spend my time reading 20 pages of crap). My wife asked me to review it and make the notations in Word for further review by others in her group.
After about four pages, I handed it back to her and said, "Just send it back to the group the way it is. If one of my professors received this from me, I would be fortunate to even pass. I would prefer to just rewrite the whole thing instead of making a million edits." (In full disclosure, my wife is Columbian and went to college there and English is her second language, so I do cut her some slack at times on grammar.)
Anyway, since she is a lot smarter than I am (the little Latina had about a 98.5 score in the class with only the group project left to affect her score). I told her don't worry about it since she was basically going to get an "A" even if the professor marked the project down a lot. In the end, she got her "A" in the course.
Back to the point. I was shocked and appalled by how people at the graduate school level can write so poorly. It is really sad. I am not talking about some degree mills where you send money and receive a degree in the mail. I am talking about a well-respected State University. What are they teaching people in school these days?????
Rub a Dub