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On 3/24/13 11:19 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:33:21 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/24/13 12:52 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:38:03 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:23:37 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Surely you are not saying that teachers are bereft of "real life
experience."

Yes I am. Most people in academia went to school when they were five
and never left, retiring there sixty years later. It is one of the
worst examples of vertical integration in the world.

Teaching children is somehow less "real life experience" than, say,
being an accountant how?

If what you are telling them in the classroom is not relevant to what
they see when they get their first job, they did not get the benefit
of someone who has actually worked in that field.

That's like telling an advertising copywriter he cannot write good copy
about a feminine hygiene product because he personally doesn't use them.
Of course he can. There's research available, there are women to
interview, et cetera.

What real world experience does a top level professor of theoretical
physics require in order to be a better teacher?

I suppose the question ends up being, how many people can actually
make a living in theoretical physics?
This topic is about people who got out of college with a crushing debt
and can't find a job.

Be that as it may, it has nothing to do with whether a classroom teacher
has what you consider "real life experience."

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