It strikes me that many people have pet theories to the effect of: “if only the idiots teaching did it _this_ way, the problem of pedagogy would be solved”. In

It strikes me that many people have pet theories to the effect of: “if only the idiots teaching did it _this_ way, the problem of pedagogy would be solved”. In other fields, non-experts recognize that the business is subtle, involves trade offs, and if you haven’t ever done the thing maybe you should be careful about presuming to know the best way to do it. I think it’s because everyone has been a bored student in a class at some point so feels entitled to an opinion, although few have actually taught a class or truly weighed all the considerations in doing so.