Name and label

[Tuan V Nguyen <t.nguyen@garvan.unsw.edu.au>]

Hi Anh AiViet,

At 08:43 AM 4/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Anh Tuan,
>  I understand your points. In fact, it does not matter what name the 
>instituition has. I don't try to degrade any instituition by clarifying 
>the real meaning of the world. It is not a shame at all to graduate from 
>a college or technical institute.
>  The College of Amherst ranks as No 1 in the US. MIT, CAltech,..  are 
>just institutes.

        This time, I agree with you, which is a worry :))

>  And after all, it is your name that is more important than the name of 
>the school. Who knows where Einstein or Kant graduated from.
>Mike Faraday did not go to school at all.

        Again, I agree with you on this. I, for the record, 
have commented that the use of labels, e.g. title, 
honorific, degree, etc as a prefix and/or appendix to one's 
name is not necessary. Our names are what matter most. The 
one thing that I found rather amusing about our academic 
fellows in VN is that they tend to adore title and 
honorific. In front of me now is a math book which were 
written by a gentleman (which I do not want to name here) 
with title "Gia'o Su+ Tie^'n Si~ 1" and another with "Gia'o 
Su+  Tie^'n Si~ 2" ... Are there such things in VN?


        T V Nguyen