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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

STRIP TITLES FROM DOCTORS, ACADEMICS AND MIDDLING POLITICIANS/BUREAUCRATS



NO MORE TAN SRI AND DATUKS IN ACADEMIA, PLEASE

I seriously hope that the Malaysian government would seriously consider not giving titles to academics and doctors in the country. Somehow, conferment of titles to academics, especially, seems to also give the recipients a God-complex and a level of arrogance that seems to impede their intellectual progress. I suspect this is part of the reasons academics are unimpressive in this country. Doctors, depending on the strength of their character, vary a bit on this matter. Some really let the title thing get to their heads, while others mercifully still remember their Hippocratic oaths at medicine schools.

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