03-08-2012, 12:29 AM
(03-07-2012, 03:18 PM)ham Wrote:Quote:Also, the dichotomy is imbalanced: no one ever went to jail because they operated an accredited school. No one ever lost a job because of a true claim of an accredited degree. No one was ever sued because they had credentials from an accredited school. It is a false equivalency.
Well, there are people whose careers were ruined and/or degree revoked for political reasons...it doesn't matter whether you think they had it coming or not...it happened to them...it could happen to you...i personally witnessed the emotional collapse of a ph.d candidate whose viva had been botched by ONE professor on grounds of purely political disagreement...naturally he didn't say so...he just picked her work apart...guess what? I can pick apart mostly anything...typed 1879 instead of 1789? You call it a typo...i call it sloppy scholarship and fail you on referencing grounds...
Of course, the last assignments i got back from this wonderful accredited school had so many typos in -on the instructor's side- to make you laugh...
But these anecdotes don't address the point, do they? They could just as easily occur at unaccredited schools. Again, no one ever got in trouble for having a degree from an accredited school. The opposite simply is not true, as we've seen over the last few decades.