[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Mike Meredith]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:33:57 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> All the teachers I know took easy majors like Psychology etc. 

And you have of course done a degree in Psychology so you're qualified
to judge just how easy Psychology is ? In theory I did the first year
of a Psychology degree and it didn't strike me as that easy ...
Statistics seemed far easier to me. 

> and are 
> ... just ... not ... very ... smart.  There. I said it.
> 
> Try to find out the average SAT scores of those who end up teachers.  
> Those you know are probably way off the charts.

Two things here :-

1: Most people in most professions are just not very smart. We all know
   people in IT who get promoted into management to move them out of
   harm's way (worth another rant of course).

2: Teachers don't necessarily need to be that smart in the conventional
   sense. After all high school subjects really aren't that difficult.
   You need a few to tell the others how it should be done ... after
   a few years teaching experience. 

What teachers need more than conventional 'smartness' are
people-skills ... smart in the sense of dealing with people. The ones
who are good there, have a better chance of being good teachers. I
think anyway :)



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