re: #375 Racer X

How did you hold back from telling them all to get the hell out and come back when they have brains?

A calculator - to figure out 3x5. And then wondering if 5x3 was the same. Amazing. What makes these people think they are in any way qualified to tech others?

The honest answer is they get a 3.5 average or above in the education department courses that include such things as how to cut out those decorations for the classroom.

The thing with a state school; is that they, by mandate, take lots and lots of people, even the flagship campuses.

To be certain, if you look at the typical state school out side of California, (places like Berkley, UCSD and UCLA are far from typical) you will find that the smartest kid there is just as smart as the smartest kid at an Ivy or MIT or Stanford or Johns Hopkins or U. Chicago. However, the dumbest kids at those schools would still be in the top 5% at the state schools.

The kids in teh elementary class were passed up and through a broken Highschool system, no child was left behind, and then they come through the sdoors of the state school, which will not let them have a real major, but will none the less take heir parent’s money and give them something to do so they get some sort of degree.

Most of the ones in the education dept were frankly the sorts of young women who saw teaching as a sort of glorified form of babysitting. Again to be fair, there are still some great teachers out there. There are also some very bright people who go into it for idealistic reasons. Unfortunately, they are the minority.