Does Susan Boyle Deserve an Honorary Doctorate?

Last edited by Clix Pix on Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:33 pm; edited 1 time in total

http://thesusanboylereview.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/

I have very mixed feelings about honorary Doctorates. It just seems to me that there should be other ways to honor people who are outside the academic field other than presenting them with Doctorates. I think it cheapens that distinctive degree when it becomes a catch-all award having nothing to do with academic achievement. Couldn't they come up with some other way of honoring success, perseverance, excellence,---and all the qualities Susan and many others have achieved outside of academia ---other than with an honorary Doctorate??! To me, Doctorates rightly belong only to those who have sweated their brains out working and studying for years to finally reach that pinnacle. They're the ones who truly deserve the title. They can call me Queen,---but that doesn't make me one, no matter how many great things I've accomplished.

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That was well written Clix. Thank you for bringing the URL here and posting it on the "Guest Forum for all to see.... Smile

This explains beautiful who Susan Boyle is.... clapping

The answer is YES!!!!! Her courses came in the school of life. Very Happy