PhD Historian

If you were a son of a person from the working-class, there was no future for you. Then, a ideology told to everybody: if you were a good student, you could get a good life in the future. Really?

I was a good student. I am a PhD historian. I wrote books. However, world changed and people don’t care about knowledge anymore. Mathew Lyons wrote (24th August 2015):

“(…) today it takes a brave person to undertake postgraduate study in the humanities – and then to seek a career in academia – without the security of a private income, or rich parents, or, more commonly, both.”*

Why? There are no respect and no money in the humanities. “Young academics (…) [are] poorly paid and treated with contempt.”*

Mathew Lyons analyzes the reality of the historians in England.

And... what about Brazil? It is worst. Government does not take education seriously. Universities’ owners believe they don’t need PhD professors. The majority wants easy money. Everything must be immediate and superficial. Nobody cares about true knowledge.

The consequence of this is simple: the bad image of Brazil. In other words, Brazil would not be a serious country. It would be another “banana republic”.
 

There is a real crisis today. It started when politicians decided education was not important.

© profelipe ™

(*) Mathew Lyons Young academics: The great betrayal. History Today, 24th August 2015. http://www.historytoday.com/…/young-academics-great-betrayal