And what a useful education degree it becomes. Like comparing Karl Marx to Ronald Regan. Everything from the ying to the yang include discussing Molier’s Tartuffe to Goethe. Everything, of course, focused on the daily life of teaching in today’s public school classrooms.
Finally the big day arrives, the graduation ceremony and that ticket to enter the profession in a school portable.
How outrageous it would be to suggest the following impossible changes. Allow students to learn the routines as they really are (not on Mt. Olympus) by apprenticing in a school for four years, Monday to Thursday, with an experienced chalk holder and attend university, if necessary, only on Fridays.
At least with that kind of a system, there would be two adults in a classroom, which would make a huge difference academically and socially. Why? Because student compositions in classrooms today, with so many breakups and problems at home, demand it.
But, oh no. It would interfere with that high upon the hill infrastructure and prestige associated with university.