Jill Biden has an EdD in Education and can technically call herself ‘doctor,’ but that term is usually used for educational professional purposes. It’s an unimpressive degree in general.
Joseph Epstein wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, titled, “Is there a doctor in the White House? Not if you need an M.D.”
Epstein is a writer and lecturer at the university. After he wrote the essay, his profile was erased from the university website.
He said using ‘Dr’ before her name “sounds and feels fraudulent not to say a touch comic.” He said it because her doctorate is in education, not medicine or science. Many say, that’s not elitist to those not in education, it’s telling the truth.
Critics in education have said that if people understood how easy it is to get an EdD, they might agree.
Epstein also argued that a Ph.D., once prestigious, has also been eroded due “to the lack of seriousness and the relaxation of standards in university education generally.”
Epstein is no longer an “emeritus lecturer” on the Northwestern website.
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Biden needs a gerontologist and a psychiatrist because he’s old and he’s mentally ill. His wife is not qualified as either, but she knows first hand how sick he is. She’s been covering up for him for months, maybe years.
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.
Luigi Pirandello
I will not criticize the Biden woman for using Dr. in front of her name. But Mr. Epstein has a point. Look no further than the mental giant, Whoopi Goldberg, who last March proclaimed the Biden guy should make his wife Surgeon General: “I’m hoping Dr. Jill becomes the surgeon general … she’s a hell of a doctor. She’s an amazing doctor,”
Higher ed tuition and fees have increased so much in the last 40 years that average annual incomes would need to exceed $ 210,000 to have keptpace. The academic elites, most with meaningless PhD degrees, making higher ed affordable only for the ……………. elites.