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Even if competent people were allowed en masse to become teachers without jumping through the education industry’s hoops

It's pretty simple to transition to teaching. Many colleges have programs that let you take the education classes while still working at your current job. I'm looking into it now, actually.

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.

Why in the world would we need to pull 100,000 people out of industry to improve our education system? We have plenty of good teachers and a few bad ones. All those 100,000 people need to do to improve our education system is to make their kids study. If every parent got involved and made their child study and complete the coursework, our schools would improve 100 percent.

Many states have programs designed to recruit mid-career professionals into the teaching profession. I know this because in April of this year, my wife quizzed me on when I'd be pursuing my dream of teaching. Well, I did a little research, made a few calls, took a subject-matter proficiency test, quit my job, and began teaching in August.

If your degree and background are in Math or Science, you'll have plenty of options.