The ‘education degree’ is totally meaningless. It explores ‘how to teach,’ and most of what is taught is either obvious or stupid. If you want history teacher, hire someone who has studied history, not someone with education degree ‘w/focus on history.’
A graduate student assigned to teach undergraduates gets basically no training at all. S/he gets maybe a couple days of what to do, and then is thrown in deep end of pool. This is b/c training comes only through doing, and some are good and others are not.
Spending years ‘studying’ how to do this is a colossal waste of time. Fact that people pay to be taught by people with no training but sound knowledge underscores this.
And private schools don’t require Ed degree, and usually don’t even want it. They want someone with a degree in Math/Physics/History/French - whatever. Something that shows real knowledge of the subject. They figure they can teach you techniques on job, but they want knowledge.
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