Spin-Off: Mentally Unstable People with Advanced Degrees

[SWTXBelle]

My daughter is taking the same learned professor I took for Logic some 24 or so years ago. She asked me if he was awkward or insane. I answered I thought it was some of both.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

My daughter is taking the same learned professor I took for Logic some 24 or so years ago. She asked me if he was awkward or insane. I answered I thought it was some of both.

My experience has been that most logicians have advanced Philosophy degrees. And most philosophers are a bit odd (awkward, insane, what have you). So, it makes sense that your logician is awkward and insane.

I could argue that you'd have to be insane to teach logic for 24 years, but then I'd be making a case for my own (inevitable) insanity. Tell you what, though, you can learn a lot about people by teaching logic. It's truly amazing to see some people's thought processes in action. But that's another thread.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

My experience has been that most logicians have advanced Philosophy degrees. And most philosophers are a bit odd (awkward, insane, what have you). So, it makes sense that your logician is awkward and insane.

I could argue that you'd have to be insane to teach logic for 24 years, but then I'd be making a case for my own (inevitable) insanity. Tell you what, though, you can learn a lot about people by teaching logic. It's truly amazing to see some people's thought processes in action. But that's another thread.

I believe you can make a fairly convincing argument for insanity being the result of teaching ANYTHING for 24 years. (And when I took this professor, he had probably been teaching 10 - 14 years - so think about teaching logic for 32 - 38 years!) FWIW - my daughter is a philosophy major. She was in the philosophy library, looking woebegone. An upperclassman asked her what was up, and she answered something to the effect that it was a shame the world didn't opperate the way it logically and philosophically should. "You must be a freshman" the upperclassman replied.