Bright minds don't choose teaching

Bright minds don't choose teaching: research. :

"'We, as a society, need to recognise that an important question is not just how many teachers we have, but also maintaining the best standards of those teachers,' he said."

This isn't a surprise. Look at all the youth statistics which have been around!!! I can't see that encouraging anyone. Anyway, ever since I was at school there has been the saying: " Those who can , do and those who can't , teach."

I don't particularly beieve it was true at the time as the majority of teachers I had were formidable scholars and had very interesting minds. The ordinary ones were limited and it was obvious. When my daughter was at school we had an interesting array of English teachers who had no linguitic control, French teachers who actually had no French and someone teaching geography who couldn't read maps. But we also had some extremely talented art teachers, some very knowledgeable science teachers,dedicated maths teachers and some excellent English teachers along the way...and one Indonesian teacher who was a complete legend!!