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What an abysmal quote. It is completely false, and does nothing to encourage intelligent people to go into teaching which we desperately need.

I hate it too and wish I hadn't shared it. I thought it was basically what the parent was saying, but more succinct.

Makes you wonder about those sex-ed teachers, eh?

"And those that can't teach, teach gym" - Jack Black, School of Rock

If you can’t do it you can’t teach it. This quote, while being dumb as shit, does show the incredible low value we place on teaching. Teaching is for losers, and yet as a society we’re incredibly confused why we aren’t being taught well in schools and universities????

I wasn't convinced they could teach either. It is like being taught cycling by someone who not only hasn't cycled, they haven't even seen a bike.

Being able to do, and being able to teach aren't separate. I got value because my professors could teach and do, they were experts. If you can't do, don't teach either...just do...something else.

Teaching seems to attract all the dregs from society.