Anyone who feels their skills are better than the vast majority of teachers can easily transition into the profession. Perhaps more should consider doing so. I am considering it, though not for any reasons of ego. I won’t do it until I feel I can do as good of a job as my parents do every day.
Even if competent people were allowed en masse to become teachers without jumping through the education industry’s hoops, it wouldn’t be a good thing. the new, hihgly qualified teachers would probably do a good job, but who would do their jobs? If you take the hundred thousand smartest people in the country and make them teachers, all of a sudden a lot of airplanes won’t get flown, hearts won’t get transplanted, inventions won’t be made... the country would fall apart.
The problem with transitioning into teaching is four years of a teaching degree that costs money and is useless for anything else.
When I went to college many years ago, the college I attended had a teaching degree program. The courses from that program were not interchangeable with those from any other degree program.
I have my degree in meteorology and have had science courses at the college level in everything except geology. These were courses specifically required for science majors so were generally recognized as more rigorous that the teaching major science courses. Yet they will not transfer into a teaching degree program.
I would not be interested in going through four years of college again, taking and paying for courses I would learn nothing from.
There likely would be plenty of well qualified teachers available if there were some way of taking a short make up type of course, that would touch on those subjects necessary for teaching, while letting the rest of the education or practical work experience count for something.
The thing that always blows me away is that a person is not allowed to teach public school without a teaching degree, yet the college professors who may not have a teaching degree, teach teaching majors. So the profs are qualified to teach the future teachers but not the students the teachers would be teaching. They can teach college but not high school or less.
You must have a creative definition of the word "easily."