education majors have the lowest sat’s and gre’s,
along with journalism, sociology, anthropology, and phys ed majors.
Were education majors producing students who could actually read, write, and do math, we’d be a lot less critical of them.
However, I’m beginning to look at high school credentials before the college ones on new hires.
Public school?
Downgrade.
For obvious reasons.
—it was well known by the “students” when I was in college in the late ‘50’s that if you couldn’t make it in engineering or the sciences (real science, not “social”—) , you could switch to “Education” and become a teacher-—
So, apparently, the Liberal professional education thinking, of the educator being soft on the students, originated in the college and university schools training the educators.
Naturally, in as much those going into education as a profession know how much that thinking, on the part of their college professors, helped elevate their grades, deserved or not, they feel inclined to pass along the lax standards that helped them get their jobs.