On 28 Dec 2012 19:43:19 GMT, "John Varela" <
newlamps@verizon.net>
wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:44:21 UTC, Tony Cooper
<tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you feel that holders of advanced degrees in business have less of
an interest in outside-the-field reading material than academics or
holders of advanced degrees in law, theology, science, or accountancy?
You didn't ask me, but I'll answer anyway: Yes.
If so, how have you arrived at this?
See my other post regarding the bank vice president.
At the other end of the spectrum there is near here a rare book
store that caters to military and CIA people.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-old-book-company-mclean
I'm more responding to the first poster - but speaking personally as
one who actually DOES have such a degree, one of the great moments in
my life was when my parents (after spending a great deal of money on
an encyclopedia set for my brother and I that they really couldn't
afford at that point) first took us to the public library and got us
library cards. I got to the point that I was soon reading mostly
non-fiction but on a huge variety of subjects. I discovered Isaac
Asimov's 3 volume series on physics and only afterwards learned "oh he
wrote quite a bit of science fiction too!" or the biography of Lou
Gehrig, the New York Yankee who had to retire from baseball at the
peak of his career due to the disease that was rare then but bears his
name today.
In business school, I spent a lot of time in the university bookstore
and purchased quite a few books that weren't exactly "on the
curriculum". No question I worked hard, but these books were how I
wound down before bedtime.
I also spent a lot of time in the medical school library not so much
for the books (but I did read a few there) but because they had great
study space where I could count on not being bothered by fellow
classmates.
So while I would NOT agree business school students are less
interested in books outside their area of academic interest I know I
read more than most of my classmates. I wouldn't necessarily say MORE
but certainly no less. (My reading dropped a bit in my last semester
of B-school but then by then I had met my future wife and wanted to
spend enough time with her that we'd be together after I graduated...)
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