I just realized that popular media has made me think this is somehow a bad thing. When actually it's how things should be. If you can do something do it. When you can't teach someone who can. Ugh, capitalism creeps into everything.
I've always hated this bit of "conventional wisdom" . Teaching is a thing you do, so what then, "Those who can teach, do , those who can't teach, teach?" I imagine this soundbite came into it's own around the time schoolteachers started becoming a favorite target in politics.
Thats interesting, word, it does shit on teachers. And they are the most bitched about union. I'm convinced.
Being a tutor you realise how difficult it is to wrangle one kid, let alone 20-30. Anyone who whips out that phrase above should try control a group of kids for 6 hours, let alone trying to get them to learn something!
Or you... learn from a person used to do it, which is also a good program. Just because you teach it doesn't mean you can't do it. My best teachers were almost always people who came into teaching with a background where they did some pretty interesting shit before moving to teaching. Like the dude who hit 45 and his kids had moved out and he realized he was kinda lonely so he retired from working in advanced chemical science to teach chemical science to highschoolers. He had all these old decommissioned computers from the lab where he used to work and he showed us these ancient computer programs on them a few times. The dude had stories that made the science he was teaching more relevant. It wasn't just words on pages. They were anecdotes about working at places like Hanford.
Also neglecting the fact that most who do are also teaching while they’re doing so others can learn and their knowledge isn’t isolated to themselves.
I think about this one a lot and it’s a dumb fucking quote.
