Amen Brother!
But you forgot "self-aggrandizing" (my pet peeve).
In college, Ed majors were usually too dumb to pass the real tests (Math/Chem/Phys) and were given watered-down versions.
The whole education system should be abolished and the money used for infrastructure.
The classical education model is as anachronistic as the buggy whip.
And who is a going to *babysit* the children during the day, eh?
I got so sick of listening to teachers complain about pay. My revenge was to publish this column as guest blogger for Rick Hess of Heritage in his Edweek column:
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2011/08/teacher_pay.html
Someone posted it on Huff Post and they freaked out with something like 1500 comments (seems to be deleted now).