Is America's failing education system going to impact our economy in 10 years' time?

[devonin]

Originally Posted by tsugomaru

College professors do not have to be good teachers, they are only required to teach in addition to the research they have to do. Teachers at schools have to attain a teaching degree and no doubt they will pick up a thing or two while attaining their degree.

~Tsugomaru

That you don't need a B.Ed to teach at the college/university level seems a little ridiculous to me. Pretty much every really great professor I've had in university took the time to get a B.Ed so they could learn how to teach properly.

I've had some of the most brilliant teachers and professors you could ever want, and they can't teach worth a damn, so all that knowledge doesn't get passed on in a worthwhile way, and you don't learn enough.

My brother had a computer/tech teacher in highschool who used to work for NASA, guy knew just about all there was to know about his field, but because he never learned how to teach (This was back when computer teachers were an exception and didn't need a B.Ed [This was also far enugh back that the course was called "Lab 2000" probably with an exclamation mark]) he turned all kinds of kids right off of getting into technology fields.