................................................................."Does more teacher-training help? In the early 1960s, when student SAT scores peaked, fewer than one-fourth of all public-school teachers had a postgraduate degree; 15 percent lacked even a bachelor's degree. By 1981, when SAT scores hit bottom, a bit more than half of all teachers had master's degrees and less than 1 percent lacked a bachelor's degree."...................................
I could see teachers becoming so educated about the learning process that the students in their classes become more of a study in teaching techniques and less of a person.
The best teachers I had could relate to the students on a personal level. They didn't just lecture us, and most of them didn't follow some rigid cirriculum or set of worksheets (created by another highly educated educator). They handed out knowledge and made it interesting enough that we wanted to grab it.
They may very well have held doctorates for all I know, but their main asset was their ability to make the students want to learn.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
