what came first...the teacher or the degree?
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We're all teachers...Definitely the teacher came before the degree.
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I just had this explained to me, too! Ok, a major is the actual degree, usually a 4 year degree. A minor is just a specialty. So like, you can Major in English, but minor in Shakespear. Things like that.
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I got a BS degree and the whole point was to get a job that pays a lot more than without a degree. The drive was to never have to live paycheck to paycheck and to be able to have a very leisure lifestyle plus with a degree you get respect and a better class of job. More vacation, better benefits, an office, etc.
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I believe the first mother 'taught' her child to do stuff.  But as for the first official docent?  Sorry, I  do not know, but I do know that there are references to schooling in the bible for the priests I believe.  \n\nSocrates and Aristotle were both teachers.  How about the ancient Egyptians?
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If you're talking about a teacher's credential, it depends on where you live and what you want to teach.  In the US, if you want to teach in a public school, you need at least a 4 year degree.  Each state has different requirements after that.
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=I was the first in my family to get a Masters Degree.
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A diploma refers to the physical paper that you receive after completing the requirements for a degree.  The word "diploma" comes from the Latin/Greek word meaning "folded in two," and is sometimes called a "parchment" in some English-speaking countries.  \n\nA degree refers to the whole spectrum of courses/tests/requirements that you must fulfill to be certified that you are well-versed in a specified field of knowledge.\n\nThis distinction is true in the United States.  In other English-speaking countries, a diploma may be a "degree" of lower academic standing.
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Degree is better than a Cert.
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My wife is a professor and it's not the type of thing you do simply because you majored in it; most have a deep lifelong commitment to their field to create knowledge and educate others. A PhD is basically a research degree; those that work at a University are required to research and publish. Teaching is only a portion of the job. Often, your average professor, must divide their time between teaching, research and service to the University (serving on panels, and review boards, student organizations, etc...)
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I have a B.A. in English.  I completed the four-year degree in three years by taking twenty courses in my final year of studies.  Upon graduation I found that it was, for the most part, useless.  The market is saturated with people with Arts degrees.\n\nSo I moved to Europe and worked for a while as an EFL teacher.  I really liked teaching, so I decided to use my B.A. and enroll in a B.Ed program.  I will start it in September.  It was hard to find a B.Ed program that would accept me with just a regular B.A.- a lot of programs expect you to specialize in children's literature before starting the Education program.\n\nI don't feel that I learned very much at university, but I feel like it's a necessary step to enter the workforce.  I learned more about teaching in my first day of work as an EFL teacher than I did in the enter six-week TEFL course, and I imagine that when I start teaching in high schools I will find the same thing.  One thing that I did learn during university was how to get the work done using "alternate" resources- I rarely attended lectures and preferred to study independently.  I am now excellent at finding primary and secondary resources when doing research, but the only reason I developed such good research skills was because I didn't go to the lectures and had to learn things for myself.  One of my big problems with university was that the professors would let unknowledgeable students ramble and babble for long periods of time, without bringing them back onto topic or correcting erroneous statements.  If I had a ninety-minute class and forty-five minutes was spent listening to the same two students repeat themselves six hundred times, I wanted to kill myself.  I paid for an education, not to hear the unfounded opinions of self-absorbed students.
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Education gives you basic information so that you know enough to at least start to do the job right.\n\nExperience is what makes you into a master.
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Well, it varies state by state, as they all have different rules for teaching certifications.  I did not study education, but studied chemistry.  I decided I would like to teach.  Florida had and still has a huge teacher shortage.  In Orlando they were hiring people like crazy to be teachers and could not fill the classrooms.  All you had to have was a 4 year degree in anything and you could get a 3 year temporary teaching certificate.  Then, the school district paid for the training for me to get fully certified.  This was Orlange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida, but I know there were a lot of school districts that were this way.
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On a job application, etc. when the number of years of school is asked, a bachelor's degree is normally 16 yrs.... 12 yrs of primary education and 4 yrs of secondary education.  How long you took to get it is irrelevant as it is considered a 4 yr degree.\n\nSue
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John's first sentence is beautiful. and correct!\n\nHowever, the master was first born to be a teacher and with age, education and experience he/she becomes the practicing master.  And, only the master is truly ABLE to recognize those precious moments when the student is really ready to receive the lesson.\n\nA trained teacher only delivers lessons, hoping some will penetrate the minds of average students.  This is not to say that trained teachers are not competent, many are very competent, but competency and mastery are separate qualities; they should not be confused, one with the other.
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Could be the old designation of "Master's in Science, Nursing" degree. To get a degree in nursing, one used to have to have a science degree first. Now a days, nursing is finally getting the respect it has long deserved, so degrees reflect the actual course of study. BN for example, used to be, BScN (Bachelor of Science, Nursing,) but now is strictly Bachelor of Nursing. Don't know the context you saw the honorific so this is just a guess.
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At our Graduation, the High School Principal or members of the Board of Education would hand out the Diplomas to the students. My mom taught in my High School and sat in the ceremony with a few other members of the faculty. So, when it was my turn to get my Diploma, instead of the Principal or one of the BOE members handing it to me, my mom handed me mine. Meant a lot to me.
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A diploma is what you get out of high school.  It is also a certificate of some form of completion/graduation.\n\nA degree means you have been educated at a college or university in some specific field and you are now well educated in that area. (ie, a college degree in biology or something)\n\nA degree is better.  You can get higher ranges of degree, associate, bachelor, master, doctorate.  That is the ranking of degrees.