I find that education majors are snobby in general. Anyone agree??
930080
I have not experienced that to be true.  Maybe you should change direction.
418652
Interesting question (I think it is a question.) Seems to me there is enough blame to go around...let's not stop with teachers. How about the students themselves? How about the parents? We have seen a huge dumbing down of students in the past 30 years...lowest common denominator effect, or "let no child be left behind." When students are pushed further into classes they cannot understand, when the quality of education is such that many students are left in the dark, when parents remain detached from their children and expect teachers to do it all, we have what we now have...a nation of illiterate kids graduating from high school Not all students are illiterate, but you don't have to look further than the questions/answers here to see that many kids cannot spell, cannot write a sentence, and cannot communicate clearly with written words. We have spawned a system where it is NOT cool to be educated, and certainly NOT cool to achieve anything in public schools. NERD is all but a curse word, isn't it? Yet it is the Nerds who inherit the jobs, the salaries, the world. Kids may think it is "cool" to be ignorant, but there comes a day when they must look around and wonder how they were left out ... of everything. IF I were to come home with a bad grade, IF I were to not do my homework, IF I were to mouth off to a teacher, I wouldn't sit for a week. So, to avoid the punishment, I did the work. Isn't it strange today that when a child misbehaves, the parents are up in the face of the teacher with accusations, threats, etc. Is it any wonder that teachers give up trying to educate a bunch of students who have no interest beyond text messaging? Teachers head into the career thinking they will make a difference. It doesn't take long for them to find out they are underpaid baby sitters of out-of-control thugs and brats. Unfortunatly, time has a way of evening things out. Sad to say, but I am glad I do not have to face the daily challenges of gangs, bullies, and "cool" people that students are surrounded by today.
404127
Laziness, lack of motivation, apathy.  Poor preparation from previous schooling.  Picking a major that you actually like.  Peer-pressure, he-said-she-said distractions.  Bad teachers.  Bad girlfriends/boyfriends. Bad roommates.
1185478
There's much more of a difference between students.  A lazy student and a good university does not get nearly as good an education as a hard working student in a less famous university.
1050058
College isnt for everyone.\nheh
307322
I am an education major at OSu in my senior year. I believe that it depends on the student and how they can relate their previous experiences with the teacher they have now. All teaching styles (hard, strict, lenient) can reach some students but no teaching style will reach ALL the students. I personally like a teacher who is strict but not mean. I like it when I have a quiet classroom to think in and I know what the rules are up front. When I was in grade school, I really liked group work but now I don't. It all depends on the child and where they are in their life.
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I hate to say it but I believe that you are overgeneralizing.  While there may be some students that know very little about supporting themselves, there are others that know a great deal.  Not only that but some students learn a great deal about income by supporting themselves while trying to obtain their education.
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I graduated in the class of '99 and I must say I was nowhere near as studious as you. I tended to blow off assignments if I didn't feel like doing them, but I have a photographic memory so I always aced my tests without cheating. I never skipped class but that could've been because my very strict father taught Physics at my high school and if I missed class he'd know about it. Besides being lazy and generally not caring much about my education I was not a terrible student. I've never done drugs and didn't start drinking or having sex until after I graduated high school. Since then I spent some time in the military which taught me discipline and I recently started college. I don't think kids are any worse now than they were when we were in school... I knew about a lot of my peers doing the same things you mentioned your students doing, I just didn't do the same things.
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I went to school in the 70's and you could get away with just about anything then, you can't now!  Instead of grades mailed to homes and posted on school websites, you got a paper "course book" that showed your "handwritten" grades that were easy to amend for parental viewing.  I had brothers that cut classes every freaking day and didn't get caught for months.  (I still hate them for that!)  The tracking of student whereabouts was manual and therefore very, very flawed so a kid could literally cut classes for weeks on end before parents were even remotely alerted to it.  When you wanted to cut the whole day, no biggie.... Your parents wouldn't even know about it until the "coursebook" (grades) came out once a quarter and of course it was handwritten so was equally easy to "amend".  No such thing as "co-ed" gym classes.  Girls had to wear these downright humiliating ice blue "gym suits" that had bloomer type elastic around the thighs to really accentuate your dimply fatness.  Talk about gross, you have no idea.  My husband's high school actually made all the freshman boys take swimming in the NUDE.  Imagine that, the whole period, totally naked in the pool with a bunch of other zit-faced 14 year olds, freezing their gonads off in a cold pool on a Monday morning.  Oh yeah, they also had to wear bathing caps at the same time.  How's that for a visual?  (suddenly those bloomers aren't looking too bad right about now)  If you went to a large school you probably had to share your locker with 3, sometimes 4 students.  There was no such thing as closed campus, you could come and go from the building as you pleased.  Every school had a "nark" that posed as a student, but of course EVERYONE knew they were a cop.  You had a "home room" teacher that was designed to be a mentor to you the whole 4 years.  You visited them each day in between 2 & 3rd period for 10 minutes with about 40 other students and this mini-period was called "division".  Your home room teacher was responsible for giving you daily "news" and for helping you pick your classes for the upcoming year.  They gave you sound advice like, "I'm NOT letting you sign up for sewing honey, you'll be taking a typing class cause it will help you for the rest of your life" and they generally got to know you better than most of the other teachers.  They remained a pain in your rump the entire 4 years.  All in all, if I had a chance to do it all over again, I wouldn't have changed a thing.  I LOVED my years in high school and besides, all things are relative anyway.  I turned out pretty darn good, and you know what?  The advice to take the typing class has served me well all these years! Being able to type well led me to my first corporate job that required typing of course.  Each job after that built experience one on top of the other, and eventually led up to what I'm doing today.  I'm a corporate Training Manager and I LOVE what I do.  My high school years played a integral part of who I am today (despite the goofy bloomers!)  Good luck to you and ENJOY your time.
303888
not sure but I am an alum from the college of education try changing fields  haha
1124846
They are a proprietary school (for profit) more interested in getting a students money than providing a quality education.  It's not a well respected degree by employers.
454513
They have to at least pretend so that they can eventually get tenure.  No university wants someone that doesn't know at least most of the subject.  I like the ones that admit they dont' know something.
576833
How dare you claim that those who actually know the subject matter would be the best teachers!  Don't you know it's more about self-esteem, and making the students feel better about the fact that they don't know s**t?
783053
To a great extent it has to do with personal choice.  Mathmatics, physics, and hard sciences are all majors that require logical and critical thinking.  Journalism, liberal arts, and arts degrees can be achieved without such logical abilities.  So while a logical thinker could excel in any of these programs, they are more likely to find frustration being surrounded by those without their abilities.  Those without the capacity for logical thought cannot excel in the sciences.  I am sure I am going to get a lot of thumbs down for this from those unable to follow the simple logic.
303231
If you look at my transcript, I got A's in subjects that I liked and studied for and C's in subjects I didn't care about.  But, the exception was Economics -- I studied like hell, loved the subject, and got B's.  I thought I might major in Economics because I really liked it, but ended up minoring in it and majoring in Political Science which was much more normative (and easier to get A's in).  Economics is far more intellectually challenging than most business programs yet is more marketable than any other Social Science program.  It's a good major, but yes, it is difficult.
486647
Why would you think that professors are any different to the rest of us?? They are not!!
990498
I've attended a small, rural, community college; a small, private liberal arts college in a rural community; a medium-sized, suburban, state university; a big, state research university; and a medium-sized, private university in an urban area. All educations are not created equal. \n\nYou do not learn the same thing anywhere. You do not even learn the same thing from different professors who teach the same course in the same university. Moreover, each student brings a different set of knowledge, skills, and experience to each class, so two students in the same class do not learn the same thing.\n\nOn the other hand, a higher price tag does not necessarily mean a better education. You and I both know that a bad student can get a bad education in a good university. And a good student can get a decent education in a bad university. From the disgraceful state of technology resources and libraries that I have seen in community colleges, though, they are going to be very frustrated. And I've seen some community colleges that seem designed to encourage their students to return home immediately after class--no place to hang out. \n\nTo me, what makes some of my educational experiences stand out from the others is the extent to which I was part of a learning community. In the best ones, I learned about a third of what I learned in the classroom from the professors' lectures and the textbook reading. I learned about a third doing my own research. And I learned about a third from my fellow students.\n\nIn college, there was a row of tables with about thirty people where I had lunch and dinner almost every day. We would talk about so many things, often about the classes we were taking. So I learned from classes I didn't even take. I learned from amazing, funny, brilliant, creative classmates that went on to be doctors, ministers, teachers, artists, and musicians. One got a Rhodes Scholarship, one travels on a diplomatic passport and helps the Russians keep track of their plutonium, one works in national security at Los Alamos, one is president of a company that makes computer games, one works in film, and one is an exotic dancer!\n\nIn graduate school, I lived in an international dorm and cooked in a kitchen where I learned from people who came from all over the world. I remember a Cantonese man rescuing my ang choi from the cooking technique I'd been taught by someone from Malaysia! Once I wrote a paper about the Maori people of New Zealand, and asked my Maori friend to read it over. She told me it was b.s.! You can't match that kind of educational experience.\n\nDo your homework. Most colleges and universities have websites. When you find a few that capture your imagination, try to visit them in person, or talk to people on campus. If you find the school that's right for you, it's worth the money. It's worth the money.\n\nAlso, some private colleges and universities have a lot of rich alumni with very happy memories of college, who give tons of money to scholarship funds. As a high school senior weighing a private college's tuition and financial aid package against those from a state-funded university, I found I would pay less to go to the private college. If you're a good student, you may have the same experience.