Damn, what a toxic and misguided comment. I have a MS in Applied Mathematics and there are many areas of math (especially “pure” math) that I’ve never touched.

Damn, what a toxic and misguided comment. I have a MS in Applied Mathematics and there are many areas of math (especially “pure” math) that I’ve never touched. Same goes for my professors. The field is so vast and so deep that it’s impossible to learn even a negligible portion of it (unless you’re immortal). Are our degrees fake? It makes perfect sense that prospective educators would specialize in different areas of math than those with a pure math (or engineering, or physics, or statistics, etc) degree.