Comment by drewcoo

>> the purpose of a class writing exercise

> how many intelligent professionals and academics don't understand this

Mastery of a discipline does not imply any pedagogical knowledge, despite anything one of my childhood heroes, Richard Feynman, might have claimed.

Despite frequent claims otherwise, in my experience and sampling of PhDs and Masters of different sorts and grad students working toward those degrees, an advanced degree does not teach anyone how to lead or teach. This is true of even some of the folks I knew studying Education itself who were a little too focused on their own research to understand anything "so simple."

> cheat themselves out of an education

What's "an education," though? For some people, education is focused on how to learn. For others, it's focused on some kind of certification to get a job. Some of us see value in both. And I'm sure there are other minority opinions as well. We, as a society, can't agree. The only thing we can seem to agree on in the US is that college should be expensive and saddle students with ridiculous debt.