When I was in college every student I knew in the School of Education had been on the verge of flunking out. It and the School of Social Services were the dumping grounds for dum dums.
I should say flunking out in some other discipline...
In the early 70s when I went back to college the School of Education was where the non-hackers in the real disciplines went. Second to that was the School of Journalism.
These education majors may not be as dumb as you think. Sure, they may not make a fortune as teachers but they certainly retire well. We have a friend who taught 6th grade for about thirty years. He and his wife lived quite modestly in a tiny little house in a very wealthy town. He’s now retired and living in Florida in a gorgeous home,drives a Lexus and travels constantly. They also spend their summers in a condo, on the water, in MA.
You’re likely correct. I started college not really knowing what I wanted to do. Not highly ambitious. I went into special education. I was able to help but remain detached enough not to feel sorry for .my students.
I home educated my kids all through school and went back to teaching. I loath public schools so I teach “at risk” teenage boys with emotional disabilities. Article says that job has no set of unique skills. Ha! Okay. I guess I’m too uneducated to know better.
Most people wouldn’t last a couple of days in here much less teach. There is a specific set of skills needed to do this job.
-—in ‘58 -’62 when I was an engineering student, it was already the watchword that if you flunked out of engineering -or any science oriented field—you could go into “Education” and graduate-—