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College-educated means nothing unless you are talking about Africa. With all due respect, people got into education is not really the brightest bunch...

• thinkpad20 12y ago
  > With all due respect, people got into education is not really the brightest bunch... Is that grammar meant to be ironic? :| Anyway, broadly demeaning a giant group of people is offensive, and the suggestion that most teachers are not bright is ridiculous. Many (most) teachers are very intelligent people, enthusiastic about education and greatly desire to give their students the best possible education they can. Unfortunately in America we have such little respect (and pay) for teachers, and the job itself has so much baggage associated with it (as this blog post discusses) that the best and brightest are often discouraged from becoming teachers.
  • douche 12y ago
    Statistics are not demeaning http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-sat-score-for-every-college-major-2014-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-sat-score-f...
• pizza 12y ago
  Say all you want about a hypothetical person's intellect, but there's no doubt that college education debt is dangerous to all career paths selected other than by salary. (And the comment about African students/scholarships is no less patronizing just because it's simultaneously mocking American teachers..)
• panzagl 12y ago
  Teaching is not about abstract symbol manipulation and interpretation- its about empathy and patience.