12-27-2010, 04:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2010, 04:53 PM by RespectableGent.)
The Wizard of Oz is an old guy with white hair who lives in a lush, expensive home, operates his own personal university, and hands out life long learning degrees to all comers.
Sounds a lot like another diploma mill operator we know, doesn't it?
"Why anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Back where I come from, we have great universities--seats of great learning--where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out they think deep thoughts, and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma! Therefore by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitatis Commititatum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D. That's, uh, er, ah, Doctor of Thinkology."
- The Wizard of Oz
You can also find this quote in "Bears Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning" by John Bear.
Sounds a lot like another diploma mill operator we know, doesn't it?
"Why anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Back where I come from, we have great universities--seats of great learning--where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out they think deep thoughts, and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma! Therefore by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitatis Commititatum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D. That's, uh, er, ah, Doctor of Thinkology."
- The Wizard of Oz
You can also find this quote in "Bears Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning" by John Bear.