Should college return to its old purpose?

[Quackers]

North Carolina State University which produces a large number of teachers (educators) with degrees in education and not the actual subject that they teach in the school.

How does this work?

 

[Lord of Elves]

How does this work?

Teachers go to the "education school" of the North Carolina State University (or somewhere else, this is just an example). They are taught how to be educators, rather than taught about any subject that they might teach. In actuality they will receive some kind of summary practical training about the subject they go on to teach, especially if that subject is some kind of math, but their degrees are pedagogical. They are being taught how to teach.

What this means is basically how to deal with student discipline issues, how students are thought to learn by university higher-ups or child psychologists, and how to navigate the bureaucracy of American public education.

What the role of teachers with degrees in education (pedagogy) is as opposed to actual subject matter, like international affairs or mathematics, is a very big deal within state Department of Education all throughout the country. Teaching is an incredibly poorly-paid profession in the United States, even moreso in North Carolina which is something like #48 in teacher pay, and teachers with education degrees are easier to hire than people with degrees in subject matter, who either go on to be professionals, work in academia or starve in a gutter because they have skills that are uninteresting to the private sector.