> Going straight from being educated to educating is insular. Teachers do things because that's the way it was done to them. Yes, this is a problem in educatio

> Going straight from being educated to educating is insular. Teachers do things because that's the way it was done to them. Yes, this is a problem in education. I would like to see a great deal of improvement in teacher education programs. From what I've seen, many teacher ed programs that claim to be challenging simply give a heavy workload, rather than challenging people's ways of thinking about education. There are some great approaches to education, but I don't see many new teachers learning them. Or if they do, I see them going into schools where they don't see those approaches being used. Then there's the political undermining of education that's happening in much of the US. > It's how they were taught and some sick part of their mind liked it, so they went into teaching. I know there are some really bad teachers out there, but this is a pretty ugly and useless line of thinking. Most teachers that you're referring to are simply falling back on what they saw in 12+ years of being a student; there's no intention to inflict on others what was done to them because they liked it.