Re: Dubya and healthcare

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:25:53 -0400, "William A. T. Clark"
<clarknospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most
physicians succeed in medical school because they master the art of rote
learning large volumes of material, and in practice later they rely on
experience and resources.

Get serious Bill. Look at the undergraduate curriculum of a pre-Med
student and one of a teacher. The MD is still the most prestigious
academic degree and I want to keep it that way. I'm a lot more
worried about incompetent physicians than teachers. I've survived
many incompetent teachers in my academic life. I might not be as
lucky if they were MDs.

I don't know about Ohio, but in NY any student with 30 graduate
credits can teach undergraduates without ever having taken a course in
education. The MEd degree is handed out in numbers that stagger the
mind and the requirements are so easy that anyone with half a brain
can get the degree.

I'd be happy to see teachers get more money, but as long as better
training and stiffer requirements are required and get rid of tenure
so they could get rid of the incompetents.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Dubya and healthcare
    ... Jack Hollis wrote: ... worried about incompetent physicians than teachers. ... certainly not good enough to attract the best and brightest. ...
    (rec.sport.golf)
  • Re: Shrumpf, Beauchamp, Rastafarian parental advice memochat
    ... due to "incompetent teachers"........ ... And I agree that -many- teachers in general are ... My wife is in the special education department of that high ... and any special attention they pay to any kid comes 'out of hide'. ...
    (rec.sport.football.college)
  • Re: Head Teachers are "stressed"?
    ... I heard some government mouthpiece spouting on over the weekend that this country now has the finest education system ever. ... The next day there was a report that 26,000 teachers are incompetent. ... I would guess there are about 250,000 teachers in the public sector so 26,000 incompetents would be approximately 10% of the total. ...
    (uk.local.kent)
  • Re: In the News: Christian law center seeks to change American culture
    ... lesson plan. ... The teachers ... may have been too ignorant or incompetent to understand what they were ... taught it and they are cooked. ...
    (talk.origins)
  • Re: Deleting first & last character of a field
    ... In an emty column, use a formula like the following: ... > I have an Excel spreadsheet that has a field for teacher names. ... I can't use the find/replace because I don't want to get rid of the | that separates the 2 teachers names. ... I just want to get rid of the ones that are in the beginning of the field and the end of the field. ...
    (microsoft.public.excel.misc)