11-30-2007, 01:53 PM
ham Wrote:The point is, then, just be good and just let people appreciate you for what you are. If qualifications mean nothing (and it very well might be in some cases ), why bother acquiring non-traditional ones? More so, why bother with "though" ways to acquire non-traditional qualifications, titles or degrees, when there is ebay?
There are a multitude of reasons why people acquire degrees when they are not necessarily needed - self esteem, self interest, self education, personal knowledge, personal ambition, the result of research and publication of that research, etc. In my case I already had a number if UK Royal Chartered qualifications, but my PhD has already opened up many doors in my waterfowl work that would not have opened otherwise, particularly when it comes to raising funds towards saving the NZ Brown Teal. As has the Honour bestowed on me by the NZ Government in the NZ New Year Honours List in 2005 - of course, this was the ‘icing on the cake’ for the Hayes family.
In the case of Sir Peter Scott, he received honorary doctorates from a number of universities - and I don't think he ever turned any down!