May 13th, 2008 at 9:54 am (Cancer)
give this kid a Ph.D.
Via Julian Sanchez comes this article:
An Oxford engineering student was surprised but undaunted when he was approached to deliver a series of lectures in Beijing on global economics.Matthew Richardson knew “next to nothing” about the subject but, believing he would be addressing a sixth-form audience, he felt he could “carry it off”.
Mr Richardson, 23, borrowed an A-level textbook entitled An Introduction to Global Financial Markets from a library and swotted up on its contents on the flight from London to China. [...]
As Julian says, just read it. I don’t want to suggest that there’s any hierarchy in academic subject matter or anything, but somehow I doubt that an undergraduate in economics, no matter how clever, would be able to pull off a comparable feat in front of Chinese engineers. Now Chinese social workers, that’s another matter…
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