The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> Reply From Dr Joseph

Reply From Dr Joseph
Posted by pancho (Guest) - Monday, July 30 2007, 20:07:56 (CEST)
from 71.116.101.196 - pool-71-116-101-196.snfcca.dsl-w.verizon.net Network - Windows XP - Internet Explorer
Website:
Website title:

...Dr Joseph very wisely refuses to waste his time answering every accusation or even question put to him by the jackasses of this "nation". I'm very hesitant to bother him as he's so busy with more important work...but on occasion he sends a response to a question.

..I already shot holes through Maggie's "points"...that's the reason I was finally banned, though they'll say it was because I was impolite.

She made agreat to-do of "discovering" that Hitti had RETIRED two years BEFORE Dr Joseph got his doctorate...not knowing much of academic life and procedure at its higher levels..you know, where the "power-elite" run things in such a way as to "keep" Maggie out...forcing her to get a "real" education in Turlock..."HOW" she yelled...could a RETIRED professor guide a student through to his dissertation?

..being a confirmed liar herself she must have felt she caught Dr Joseph in a lie...I don't know what she thought he would have lied about...or why. Does she mean to imply that he didn't really get his doctorate and tipped his hand by claiming a non-existant professor...who'd retired two years earlier and therefore couldn't have mentored him? It's hard to say...but you can see how she operates..like Aprim these "intellectuals" don't really read...and neither do they comprehend..what Maggie does is lift what SHE likes out of context...as Aprim lifts what HE likes out of context...they may have different points of view and therefore lift different things..but the method, the style, is the same....they don't read thorougly...they don't comprehend...and they don't research anything.

I asked Dr Joseph if, in real schools, retired professors will continue mentoring a student through to his final degree...it was just a hunch...seemed reasonable to me that if a professor was halfway through the process with graduate students..he wouldn't dump then when he retired...didn't seem professional etc.

Dr Joseph's reply:

Regarding Hitti's retirement, you had guessed it right: that
retired teachers can continue mentoring even after their retirement.
That is all there is to it.

In 1954 I had completed all the course requirement and had passed
the final examination required of graduate students who wanted to
pursue their work for the doctorate. That automatically granted me
the M.A. degree and paved the way for doing the research and writing
of a Ph.D. dissertation.

In 1954 also I was awarded a research grant that enabled me to spend
1954-1956 in Europe and the Middle East on the project that I had
already started under Professor Hitti. During my two years abroad, I
sent him occasional progress reports on the work that I was doing. He
apparently was very pleased with what he read. All he had to do in
1956, when I wrote and presented my dissertation, was to read it as a
whole and pass judgement on whether it was worthy of a Ph.D.
degree--whether I was capable of doing independent research that
either expanded our knowledge on the topic at hand or corrected it,
or both.

He could have, of course, refused me upon his retirement but he did
not. He knew me well as a student in his courses and seminars, and as
one who in the early 1950s worked for him, proof-reading the typed
versions of his books.

I was the last Ph.D. whose thesis Dr. Hitti supervised; I noted that
fact in the preface of my thesis, mentioning also the name of the
very first candidate who had that honor--the well known Arab
historian
of the American University of Beirut, Qusti Zurayk.

..and that, as they say, is that.



---------------------


The full topic:



Content-length: 4096
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, applicatio...
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-language: es-mx
Cache-control: no-cache
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: *hidded*
Host: www.insideassyria.com
Referer: http://www.insideassyria.com/rkvsf5/rkvsf_core.php?.LTZb.
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1)



Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9