Yes. Teachers in North America are not respected or paid as professionals. The typical university acceptance criteria to become a teacher is very low. The pay is rock bottom.

Great teachers exist too but generally teachers are not experts in anything, including teaching.

this place is filled with people who are motivated to learn for themselves which creates a huge sampling bias.

You will see this come up in all sorts of discussion and i find it enlightening as to how exactly the decisions behind modern software are made.

Too many here fail to realise that real life has all sorts of edge cases and exceptions, including bad teachers.

Claiming that most teachers aren't experts is just another example of this. One student learns more about one narrow topic and then dismisses the teacher's broader, but shallower knowledge as being that of a non-expert.

Typical of the general population, myself included.

You all clearly went to excellent schools, because as someone who went to a low performing urban one, what they’re saying is obviously true to me.

> One student learns more about one narrow topic and then dismisses the teacher's broader, but shallower knowledge as being that of a non-expert.

Perhaps you're talking about me (I said teachers are generally not experts in anything). I was a teacher for a few years and got a master's degree in education. That doesn't mean I'm right but I don't think it's smart to dismiss people on the internet as "probably just some dismissive student with narrow expert knowledge". I don't think I'm "general population" on this subject.

Teaching in North America has low professional requirements and even lower pay. The profession gets almost no respect. As a result, experts in anything (including experts in education) are pushed out of the career because it's a shitshow.