[JoeFromSidney]

The idea that teaching is in any way comparable to a "learned profession" is ridiculous. The intellectual content of so-called "education" courses is near zero. As Thomas Sowell put it, everyone knows the schools of education are the dregs of the campus. Their constant whining about how poorly they're treated is getting old.

[ArrogantBustard]

The intellectual content of so-called "education" courses is near zero.

True.

Also not entirely relevant.

I will not speak of government schools, my knowledge of them is limited.

Many years ago I taught science and math in a Catholic high school. I have never taken an "education" course in my life. At the time my highest degree was a BS in one of the traditional "hard" sciences. My wife is a teacher; she has been on the faculty of three different Catholic high schools during the >20 years of our marriage. She has never taken an "education" course, and holds a MA degree in her field of expertise. Her fellow faculty similarly hold Bachelor's or Master's degrees in the subjects they are hired to teach. The Catholic schools I'm familiar with don't look on Education courses and degrees favourably.