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To: gcruse
Are highly educated people no better in government jobs than someone without the education? Is it really necessary for teachers to have expensive masters degrees before they can go on and teach?

Probably not. As a business owner, I found education was not important in looking for quality of employees. Give me character and attitude any day. There are college graduates I wouldn't want and some of my best employees lacked high school diplomas.

Years ago, students were taught by teachers who had high school diplomas. Many had taken a course they called "normal training" in high school and went straight to one-room schoolhouses. My cousins came from such a school. One PhD, two with masters in engineering and the other a couple of degrees. Never knew of a student that couldn't read and write and do math. The teachers stoked pot belly stoves and cleaned their own classrooms with the help of the students. I say lets bring back one room schoolhouses with teachers from normal training.

116 posted on 06/06/2003 5:14:00 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
AAMOF, the college in Canyon, Texas, used to be called West Texas State Normal Teacher's College. Always wondered what the
'normal' meant, but never asked.
117 posted on 06/06/2003 9:40:54 AM PDT by gcruse (Superstition is a mind in chains.)
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