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Digby wrote:I'm all for people studying at university, merely the act of studying itself I'd warrant a good thing. It's just the attitude surrounding classics I find odd, that it's a subject considered of great import, when really it's more on a par with cruise management.

I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn. I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

Digby wrote:I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn. I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

Which Tyler wrote:

Digby wrote:I'm all for people studying at university, merely the act of studying itself I'd warrant a good thing. It's just the attitude surrounding classics I find odd, that it's a subject considered of great import, when really it's more on a par with cruise management.

I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn. I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

not medicine or engineering? :O

I do'nt have a problem with a classics degree - it's a hell of lot better than so many out there; it's the people who do them that are the issue; but I'm sure they'd be just as pretentiously superior regardless of what they'd studied - I think they study classics because they are that way, not the other way around.

Digby wrote:

Which Tyler wrote:

Digby wrote:I'm all for people studying at university, merely the act of studying itself I'd warrant a good thing. It's just the attitude surrounding classics I find odd, that it's a subject considered of great import, when really it's more on a par with cruise management.

I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn. I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

not medicine or engineering? :O

I do'nt have a problem with a classics degree - it's a hell of lot better than so many out there; it's the people who do them that are the issue; but I'm sure they'd be just as pretentiously superior regardless of what they'd studied - I think they study classics because they are that way, not the other way around.

I've more time for some of the medical research than simply medicine, medicine seems more a long fight to retain vast amounts of data than anything else. Engineering I'd have as a practical/applied offshoot of maths so that's a reasonable one

I suspect to no small degree I'm assigning respect to that which I find difficult, my own maths being good enough to perhaps take the 1st year in a maths degree but not years 2 and 3. Whereas whilst I wouldn't want to do many arts courses (or even medicine) I technically could. Though I'd like to think some of it is that most of us will be found on the B ark

Stones of granite wrote:

Digby wrote:

Which Tyler wrote: not medicine or engineering? :O

I do'nt have a problem with a classics degree - it's a hell of lot better than so many out there; it's the people who do them that are the issue; but I'm sure they'd be just as pretentiously superior regardless of what they'd studied - I think they study classics because they are that way, not the other way around.

I've more time for some of the medical research than simply medicine, medicine seems more a long fight to retain vast amounts of data than anything else. Engineering I'd have as a practical/applied offshoot of maths so that's a reasonable one

I suspect to no small degree I'm assigning respect to that which I find difficult, my own maths being good enough to perhaps take the 1st year in a maths degree but not years 2 and 3. Whereas whilst I wouldn't want to do many arts courses (or even medicine) I technically could. Though I'd like to think some of it is that most of us will be found on the B ark

As a graduate in Electronics Engineering I would argue that Engineering would be more applied Physics than Maths. My oldest son in a Physics graduate and for a long time very dogmatically voiced this opinion, but now that he has commenced a career in Engineering (after taking a Masters to convert him from a thinker to a doer) he is a little more reasonable.
Like the Sarje, I am a convinced lifelong learner with an OU Diploma in German Language and Culture, and I completed 2/3 of one in Geology. I may pick it up again when my body gives out and I give up triathlons (could be any day now).

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Now haul on ye ballixes! I wouldn't be half the cunt I am today if I hadn't received 4 years of dedicated tuition in the works of Pliny the Elder and frankly, without studying Catulus I'd be fecked if I ever tried to take a war fleet up against the Carthaginians.

In the spirit of openness, I studied four years of a three year combined honours degree in Zoology and Pharmacology at Nottingham, before finally completing a BA (Hons) in Modern History with the OU. I have currently completed 2/3 of a Masters in Museum Studies with Ulster University. With the exception of 2 years commanding the Army's compulsory drug testing team and the last 6 months as a museum project manager this collective learning effort has net almost no immediately obvious value whatsoever. But I believe that it may have at the very least staved off Alzheimer's for a few months, which means I don't have to resort to the Tumeric-cure and watch my lungs fall out of my arse!

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:

welshsaint wrote:

Galfon wrote:Universities with silly names that also run silly courses.

Classics at Oxford. Cracks me up every time. Just call it Music.

Fer feck sake WS! I hope te feck that didn't come up on The Chase?

Where is the 'DOH!' smiley when you need it?

Digby wrote:
A) I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn.

B) I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

Mellsblue wrote:

Digby wrote:
A) I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn.

B) I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

A) I thought someone on here had definitively proved that you hadn’t even read a book on economics letalone been awarded a degree in the subject.

B) You are Michael Gove and I claim my €10.

Digby wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:

Digby wrote:
A) I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn.

B) I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

A) I thought someone on here had definitively proved that you hadn’t even read a book on economics letalone been awarded a degree in the subject.

B) You are Michael Gove and I claim my €10.

And I read a book on Lydia Loppkova (Mrs John Maynard Keynes, yes Mrs), does that count?

Digby wrote:

Mellsblue wrote:

Digby wrote:
A) I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn.

B) I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

A) I thought someone on here had definitively proved that you hadn’t even read a book on economics letalone been awarded a degree in the subject.

B) You are Michael Gove and I claim my €10.

One doesn't need to much mock Gove given who he's married to, still, he's both an easy target and it's good fun.

And I read a book on Lydia Loppkova (Mrs John Maynard Keynes, yes Mrs), does that count?

Digby wrote:

SerjeantWildgoose wrote:Now haul on ye ballixes! I wouldn't be half the cunt I am today if I hadn't received 4 years of dedicated tuition in the works of Pliny the Elder and frankly, without studying Catulus I'd be fecked if I ever tried to take a war fleet up against the Carthaginians.

In the spirit of openness, I studied four years of a three year combined honours degree in Zoology and Pharmacology at Nottingham, before finally completing a BA (Hons) in Modern History with the OU. I have currently completed 2/3 of a Masters in Museum Studies with Ulster University. With the exception of 2 years commanding the Army's compulsory drug testing team and the last 6 months as a museum project manager this collective learning effort has net almost no immediately obvious value whatsoever. But I believe that it may have at the very least staved off Alzheimer's for a few months, which means I don't have to resort to the Tumeric-cure and watch my lungs fall out of my arse!

I'm all for people studying at university, merely the act of studying itself I'd warrant a good thing. It's just the attitude surrounding classics I find odd, that it's a subject considered of great import, when really it's more on a par with cruise management.

I say this well aware my own subject of economics is well deserving of scorn. I also say this really only considering there are only a few subjects of worth, namely in the fields of maths, physics and chemistry

Galfon wrote:Biochem. for me, followed by post-grad & industry beer making kwallies.(ancient history now tho')
My lad got to Uni via college and does something he enjoys, webby type coding for a Lunnun based agency, for international clients...from 'oop Norf.
Chilled.
I preferred Latin at school but wasn't aware it was a musical subject.

Galfon wrote:..ad perpetuam.

welshsaint wrote:Res ipsa loquitur

Banquo wrote:

Galfon wrote:..ad perpetuam.

ad astra

Galfon wrote:Agree, bit of an eyesore but will get lost in a big bustling centre...
Still mostly nigrum cabi et privatus round here.