Posted on 07/08/2022 8:35:40 AM PDT by DFG
Aguest at a private reception last week with Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee secretly recorded the event and then sent the recording to a local media outlet. News Channel 5 then ran a hit story about Arnn’s accurate remark that “teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country.”
Selected 30-second clips from the two-hour recording that betrayed event-goers’ confidence were next quickly amplified in state media, including the state’s biggest leftist outlet, The Tennesseean. This pressure campaign on Thursday caused a Tennessee public school to drop its use of high-quality, time-tested curricula and training that the college provides any K-12 school for free.
In breathless tabloid fashion, News Channel 5’s story falsely states that Arnn “repeatedly mocks the intelligence of public school teachers and questions whether they really care about what is best for their students.” Then the “reporter” rushes to state Democratic Party officials to jointly manufacture outrage to air at Republicans’ desires to improve public schools.
But Arnn was not mocking the intelligence of all public school teachers. His disparaging remarks were aimed at the education bureaucracy that everyone but leftists knows is politically and morally corrupt. Here’s more context for one of the carefully excerpted Arnn quotes from the secret recording, which shows his focus is on doing what’s best for children and making an argument that teacher colleges don’t focus on that but should.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
No sentient being considers an “eddikashun” degree to be worth more than that of Monopoly money. Yes, there are intelligent and very good teachers out there. However, that and their degrees are not related.
They missed the part about teachers being the worst students and bring low achievers.
When I was a college student, the dumbest kids on campus were the Education majors...😁
I’m a Mechanical Engineer (~45 yrs).
What is a Media Engineer and what do they do??
I did a double-take on the headline. They are using engineers as a verb, not a noun.
Paraphrasing the saying, those who can do, those who can’t teach
“His disparaging remarks were aimed at the education bureaucracy that everyone but leftists knows is politically and morally corrupt.”
Therein lies the biggest hurdle of them all. Getting rid of and keeping out politically and morally corrupt bureaucrats.
It’s not that difficult to teach subject matter assuming one has a firm grasp on said subject matter. Being a people person is definitely a plus as well as the ability to impart the subject matter to attentive students.
In general, administrations simply get in the way of teachers by “fixing” what’s not broken and/or reinventing the wheel resulting in our current education morass.
Thanks...
Thank you for the reminder to write a check to Hillsdale college.
In the headline, “Engineer” is used as a verb: “to
skillfully or artfully arrange for (an event or situation) to occur”.
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I know when I was a teenager, the not too bright girls wanted to major in education, especially primary education. My theory is that the women’s movement is at fault. At one time, most females who went to college became a nurse or a teacher. By the time I graduated from college in 1984, we had other options.
“ This pressure campaign on Thursday caused a Tennessee public school to drop its use of high-quality, time-tested curricula”
Funny that parental pressure has no effect on the teaching of gender misinformation or the lies of CRT. Only media pressure has an effect. Anyone who doesn’t see Big Media as the enemy isn’t paying attention.
Its true. Teachers go to the easiest colleges. They get the easiest degrees. Then they get masters degrees that are also very easy. Teaching and teachers are far different than those of 30 and 40 years ago. Women have far more choices for jobs now. And the smart women are choosing these far more lucrative and interesting jobs. Teaching is now left to the Ne’er-do-wells that get a teaching certificate after a very easy indoctrination degree. These teachers are not able to teach math. They know very little history. They think science is planting seeds or boiling water. Our public and much of our private school system is no longer education. Its indoctrination and babysitting. Your kids can learn more on google or Khan Academy than anything they get in school.
The difference between a good school and a bad school are the other kids in the school. And they are the only benefit as well. These friends at school do far more to shape the expectations of your child than any teacher.
The book,” The Graves of Academe”, written 30 years ago by Richard Mitchell, said the same thing...and was ignored.
Teachers are the most militant unionists and negotiate largely with their willing accomplices in government. Kids and education are not in their minds.
College honors levels, like cum laude, are handed out on a GPA basis. So you will see that Education and Journalism graduate by far the most of these “honors” grads. STEM, not so much.
Last I saw the GPA required for an engineer to graduate Phi Kappa Phi was about 3.6. A teacher? 3.95. By far a teaching degree is the easiest. Even more than journalism or sociology.
My wife has her Master’s Degree in Education and she is dumb as a rock, whereas I have no degree and make statement with a clean conscience. I even have a larger vocabulary, but that may be due to her parents answering questions for her so she didn’t have to. Her parents graduated from Auburn, so there you go.
Was the same at University of Missouri when I was finishing up undergrad there. That was in 1980!!!
A media engineer is a person smart enough to steal the term 'engineer' because they know it's equated with 'smart/competent but too stupid to earn the title.
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