@gąska said in Should everyone learn to code?: @benjamin-hall said in Should everyone learn to code?: @hardwaregeek said in Should everyone learn to code?: @benjamin-hall said in Should everyone learn to code?: @boomzilla said in Should everyone learn to code?: I assume he meant that they were teaching people how to teach in high school but had never actually taught at the high school level. Which is distressingly common. After all, you get a professorship by getting a PhD and doing research and post-docs, not by teaching, especially not in the real world. No, I'm not jaded. Not at all. Why would you think that? Teaching is an unpleasant and inconvenient interruption to research and getting grant money, which a lucky few Professors manage to avoid entirely. And that's (sadly) emblematic of what's wrong with higher education in the USA. FTFY Edit: although it's debatable which part is actually wrong - that professors don't want to teach, or that they have to teach. "Teach". Honestly, I had some good professors. My undergrad made a point of putting teaching first and research second, and involving undergrads in research. But I went to a religious school with very few grad students.