03-05-2022, 06:49 PM
My father was born in 1946. His dream in his childhood was to become a professor of philosophy, heady for a working to lower-middle family of farmers and mechanics in small-town Canada who had never been to college and who couldn’t even afford to send him. The college in town, mostly there for boarding students from well-off families from the regional big city, had one full-tuition scholarship for a local commuter student. He got it. (If he hadn’t, his fallback would have been to test-out a bachelor’s through the University of London External Programme. OG DegreeForumer here.)
His path initially turned just slightly to a PhD in political science. His area was political philosophy, his specialty analytic philosophy à la Wittgenstein applied to political topics, his supervisor Maurice Cranston. His first teaching position was also in political philosophy, during which his focus evolved to government regulation of business.
This led him to self-study economics. This was the 70s, and business schools were expanding rapidly without much existing pool of potential faculty trained in business schools themselves. And so his second teaching position was tenure-track economics and government-business relations at the business school at a flagship research university. His teaching assignments included the core MBA course in economics, a subject he had recently learned by self-study! Man, the Boomers had wide paths clear. He went on to be a government staff economist.
His path initially turned just slightly to a PhD in political science. His area was political philosophy, his specialty analytic philosophy à la Wittgenstein applied to political topics, his supervisor Maurice Cranston. His first teaching position was also in political philosophy, during which his focus evolved to government regulation of business.
This led him to self-study economics. This was the 70s, and business schools were expanding rapidly without much existing pool of potential faculty trained in business schools themselves. And so his second teaching position was tenure-track economics and government-business relations at the business school at a flagship research university. His teaching assignments included the core MBA course in economics, a subject he had recently learned by self-study! Man, the Boomers had wide paths clear. He went on to be a government staff economist.
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