Not long ago a friend lamented to me that he did not have multiple PhDs and thus, felt he could not carry on a conversation with someone like that. This is an interesting comment and perhaps it has more to do with our overall society and the intimidation factor that academia brings with it, the sense of authority we are told to respect and bow down too. Now then, it's not that I am surprised by his comment, but being as I currently run a Think Tank in my retirement, I find a totally different reality on this intimidation factor.
You know what's very funny about conversations and PhDs? It's the intimidation factor, don't you find it rather fascinating. It is my contention that achievement is omnipotent and that Calvin Coolidge may have been spot on is his famous speech about educated derelicts.
Thus, back to his point about conversations with individuals with multiple PhDs is of interest because as one pushes themselves into narrower and narrower areas of research and knowledge, as they work to receive these multiple PhDs often they limit themselves in the creative genius to achieve the breakthroughs in their own fields and those of other disciplines.
Indeed, too much education is almost as bad as not enough. If one is completely immersed in academia, they are not completely immersed in society and in multiple aspects of our civilization. Therefore, although their solutions to problems that plague mankind might have some validity behind them, often they are unworkable, because those solutions do not take into consideration the whole of all we are and all we have built. Beware of the multiple PhD type who claims they know all, unless they can prove they really do.
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