They are stupid, it used to be that teaching attracted top students in college, today teachers come from the worst students in college.
Americans of the past were educated by very high quality, intelligent people.
Before Deep State got involved.
Now public education exists for two purposes...
To grow the public sector.
And to groom ignorant, compliant peons for Deep State.
A degree in Education should be eliminated. The stupidest morons in the world can get a degree in education. Look at Jill Biden.
That certainly was not the case when I went to college (1964 - 1968.)
As American society in general has lost it’s moral bearings bear in mind that teachers were a respected profession. If the society values education as all societies must then respect for elders, parents, those in authority should remain at the top. Look at the Japanese.
There seems to be a direct correlation between religion of the Judeo-Christian kind in the West that acted as an anchor in terms of what is right and what is wrong. We lost that with the counter-culture movement and the assassinations of JFK/RFK/MLK, then Watergate. That is why the government should come COMPLETELY clean about these document releases, no matter what.
Since then it has been a slippery slope of cynicism, dumbing down and superficial lifestyle goals, fashionable, transient goals and pure ignorance via the smokescreen of drugs.
Growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s we still had a smidgen of fear-respect for our elders and teachers. Of course, they used the threat of violence against us but it actually worked.
One of the only ways to restore young adult responsibility instead of just the gimme, gimme, gimme of modern consumer life is to re-instate the mandatory, military draft.
Of course nobody will want to give or sacrifice anything after 52 years of no draft but it just might restore the fabric of American society.
“Americans of the past were educated by very high quality, intelligent people”
How far back is “past”? In his book the Graves of Acageme Richard Mitchell pointed out that the teaching population was from the lowest level of intelligence of college graduates. That was in 1981.
Way back intelligent women filled the teachers roles. Now they have better opportunities.
In addition, the “education” courses they are required to take are mostly useless and a waste of time, but the Education Department needs to justify its existence.
Earning a degree in education today is not difficult. It is time-cosnsuming and annoying, but it does not take to much intellectual effort. A monkey could do it.
The old joke goes...
I wanted to be a doctor but didn't qualify
So I wanted to be an engineer but it was too hard
So I wanted to be an accountant but there was too much math
So, I wanted to try art studies but I didn't have the talent
So, I finally graduated after 6 years as a teacher.
It started with 5he draft for Nam...a lot of guys got into the teaching industry to avoid the draft.