Those attending college in the Teacher program have the worst reputation for lack of intelligence, and have for decades. How we somehow got it into our heads that the dumbest among us would be the people we would hand off our kids to for 7-8 hours a day is a mystery to me.
You wonder if it was chicken-or-egg with elementary school teaching (and less so HS and college) being almost exclusively the domain of women.
Women are notoriously known to be the best apparatchiks.
But the pioneer, frontier one-room schoolroom tropes almost always have a young woman leading the classroom (likely because the men were needed for wars and labor).
Private schools and higher education historically were more male led.
Those attending college in the Teacher program have the worst reputation for lack of intelligence, and have for decades. How we somehow got it into our heads that the dumbest among us would be the people we would hand off our kids to for 7-8 hours a day is a mystery to me.
You wonder if it was chicken-or-egg with elementary school teaching (and less so HS and college) being almost exclusively the domain of women.
Women are notoriously known to be the best apparatchiks.
But the pioneer, frontier one-room schoolroom tropes almost always have a young woman leading the classroom (likely because the men were needed for wars and labor).
Private schools and higher education historically were more male led.