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It’s amazing a man would work for a masters degree and end up teaching mainly below average people at a public institution. What’s a masters degree worth?

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Good lord this comment is condescending.

Some people are teachers because they want to be teachers, period. They find fulfillment in it.

That’s not even touching the unnecessary dig at public institutions.

Did you go to public schools? I did. The student body is mainly uninterested, incapable, or irredeemable. Some great diamonds in the ruff to be sure. But certainly these people would excel regardless of a 1-off actual good teacher seeing as most of them are just mailing it in, like their student body.

Why go to the trouble of getting a masters to waste it like this?

FWIW I don’t believe teachers should need a bachelors. A 2-year trade school should suffice.

I went to public schools. The majority of teachers worked hard and did well with what they had. And many of them had masters.

It's "diamonds in the rough" not "ruff". Sorry to assume you spoke English as a first language ;-)

Touché.

I sure am glad my fantastic public high school teachers didn't have your attitude. They sacrificed so much for so little, and I'll tell you what, they made a word of difference in at least one life: mine. From what I've learned of teachers, that's more than enough for them.

Shame.

My (public) high school physics/chemistry teacher had two PHDs and is responsible for me getting interested in science in general.

He probably had more impact on the world than some CERN researchers spending their entire lives working on theoretical physics with 0 application in the real world whatsoever

Who should teach below average people ? Below average teachers with no education ?

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