If teachers really are so highly educated that makes it even worse! That means unpaid amateurs, often with 'inferior' levels of education, are beating the socks off these so educated professionals on a daily basis.
I'm two classes short of my master's in computer science currently, so there's no awe of graduate school in me.
And if teachers have undergraduate degrees in their subjects, why are there education majors? Your statements don't match what I've encountered in real life. Particularly in math and sciences, the education students I have know are woefully underprepared.
I wonder if the reason girls in general do not like math and science is partly because their generally female teachers, who do not have mathematical aptitude, manage to convince them that girls just aren't good at such things, in order to make themselves feel betteR? On a subconscious level, I mean.
I went to an all girl HS, and most of my math and science teachers were male. This school expected us all to excel, and most of us did. In fact more than 85% of my graduating class received some sort of scholarship to college, including to IVY Leagues.
All that said, I sucked at math and science.