03-31-2024, 11:24 AM
(03-31-2024, 10:47 AM)pally Wrote: Jill Biden, holds a Doctorate in Education. , as such she is entitled to use the academic title of Dr., just like Henry Kissenger and every other person who has a doctorate.
Do you laugh at all of them or just her? Why do you think her academic qualifications are laughable?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines doctor as the following
noun
1) a qualified practitioner of medicine; a physician.
2) a person who holds a doctorate.
There is a strong argument to make that we should not be calling M.D.'s "doctor," anyway. The root of the word, its earliest usage, comes from a term for those teaching others. It wasn't until several centuries later that some medical schools started calling their graduates "doctors," pretty much arbitrarily. I say that if we are going to call physicians doctor we should also be calling lawyers doctor, after all, their degree also has "doctorate" in it.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
