The fact is that most people are dumb as posts and have no business trying to teach anything.
The fact is that most teachers are dumber than the collegiate clay from which they were dug. I graduated with from a school with an education program that had the highest
NCATE accreditation scores for decades of all NCATE-accredited public and private education programs in 37 states. I knew what was coming out of there and I could only wonder at what must be coming out of the bottom of the barrel programs. My experience with many, many teachers over the 30 years since then has given me the answer: general earnestness about teaching and a desire to fit in with the union's position does not make up for lack of knowledge and deficiency of intellect.