On the Pope Center site, a student who returned to school at age forty tells an interesting story about how his distance learning classes at East Carolina University were so easy he couldn’t continue, despite a 3.9 average.
His experience illustrates one of education’s biggest failings: any sort of “education” major is likely to feature a dumbed-down curriculum. He probably should have ignored the education part and concentrated on learning the subject matter (info technology), since he had 20 years experience in his field and wanted to teach at the community college level where it isn’t necessary to have all kinds of mind-numbing education credentials. Instead, he followed a bum steer from the school’s counselors.
Who knows how many competent people have rejected K-12 teaching as a career because they couldn’t deal with meaningless education courses designed for Forrest Gump to pass?