“When I first started teaching at Stanford, someone remarked to me that he had never met a physicist who used ‘Dr.,’ and never met a Ph.D. from the Education school who did not. This has held true in my experience for decades now.”

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“When I first started teaching at Stanford, someone remarked to me that he had never met a physicist who used ‘Dr.,’ and never met a Ph.D. from the Education school who did not. This has held true in my experience for decades now.” (althouse.blogspot.com)

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[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I've heard them thousands of times. Physicists, Materials guys, Chemistry, Mathematics, all kinds of people. Usually people that have hard sciences normally do it. But I agree education is pretty bullshit, but that's the education system. They make the rules.

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Perhaps in the classroom... but not in the grocery store...

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