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Because they are not highly qualified to teach in a university, let alone remedial material in high school, let alone control kids. Ph.D's teach you how to con
by anologwintermut 13y ago
Because they are not highly qualified to teach in a university, let alone remedial material in high school, let alone control kids. Ph.D's teach you how to conduct research/scholarship. Unless you are getting a Ph.D. in education, that has nothing to do with how to teach. Even then, it's tangental.
Moreover, the rigid, controlled form of teaching used in most schools is for almost every Ph.D. student the antithesis of the teaching environment they are used to.
- Iftheshoefits 13y agoThis is spot on. A (good/proper) Ph.D. program is designed to facilitate entry into the research industry, not to teach elementary and basic subject matter (which is everything up through the first couple of semesters of undergraduate education). And the rigid, controlled curriculum is not only the antithesis of the teaching environment graduate students are accustomed to, it's the antithesis of the actual spirit of inquiry and learning in general that draws people to a graduate program. Students in most K-12 schools, in my estimation, learn by accident and in spite of the system, not as a result of it.