As a partner of an elementary educator in Canada, a master's degree no, but definitely an undergraduate with some amount of co-op. Knowing how to teach well, t

As a partner of an elementary educator in Canada, a master's degree no, but definitely an undergraduate with some amount of co-op. Knowing how to teach well, to 25+ students, is not something you can pick-up over a handful of years. Many don't even after their degrees. Even if a school sets a lesson plan that's "perfect", you'd still need someone to adapt and tailor that plan to the classroom, or to students with special needs. Lowering education standards is an absolutely surefire way of hamstringing the future of a state or country.