Originally Posted by
stlnl
Not really, the paper here mentions anytime anyone gets an honorary degree from the local universities. They often go through a list of other awardees. They tend to be people who have some level of fame.....not hollywood fame necessarily.....so thus, looking at the complete lists......is "seems" most of them were already well known people, because they were in fact.
If you are familiar with all the people the universities give honorary degree to, that would be a pretty damn impressive knowledge base you have. However, I doubt it.
A large majority of honorary degrees, whether science based, humanities or business are given to people who are icons in their field, not to people who don't know squat about quantum mechanics, for example.
I will give you that the difference is that the honorary graduates don't have to jump through the hoops like the regular graduates. Kind of like how Rashad barely wore the gi, like most schools demand you do before you get promoted; show loyalty to a BB gi instructor, where Rashad's main instructor is Greg Jackson, not Rolles Gracie, or go through blue, purple, brown black, where even some of the best no-gi guys, even with extensive ADCC experience had to do.
I am not trying to knock you, but there are guys much better than Rashad who had to get their black belt the hard way, and many qualified browns who just won't have someone hand them a black, even if they are at that level.
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