A scandal broke out this past week in Turkey, when the authorities announced they'd uncovered some situation where around 200 folks held degrees....but didn't seem to have any college class hours or test results to 'earn' a degee.
I read through the piece, and the one story which interested me.....some Turkish guy who was a carpet-cleaner.....had a official degree in psychology. Somehow, he'd entered into deal where the 'real' college had some guy/gal who just filled some data in, and the carpet-cleaner guy was a 'legit' degree-holder.
Now, folks were careful to say....the cleaner-guy wasn't talking or messing with the mind of some crazy folks....just that he had a degree.
I paused over this.
I've attended a couple of two-year colleges and three public four-year colleges. To be honest, I never saw that big of deal over knowledge given to me. I did have to prove some things, but it was more of a collection of lectures....nothing more than that.
What made Socrates different? Legend has it that he was a blacksmith early on in his life, and asked a lot of questions of people along the way.....getting opinions of people, and giving advice.
What did the carpet-cleaner intend to do with his degree? Unknown....maybe nothing.
This ending with finding the two-hundred folk out? I'm not sure....they might dig more into this and find ten-thousand folks with worthless degrees.
