PLAYER57832 wrote:Its far more likely, for example, to have a someone without a formal degree teaching a college class in the US than in many places (be it someone like Bill Cosby, Bill Gates, etc...).
Even with a "degree" the criteria for teaching in College is far less than that of lower classes. I was teaching college classes as an adjunct with only a MA. I didn't need courses in education itself, or in foreign languages, as I would have if I were to teach in High School or below. I used to muse about becoming a teacher. I had a BS in physics and a MA in computer science. Well the MA meant squat in New York as there is no such thing as Computer Science in the lower grades. When I realized that I had enough points with graduate studies to qualify for physics, I realized that I didn't have the college level foreign language points. (I actually mused about taking Latin just because.) And that just gets you in the door, you still need to go through the formal teaching college credits as well.
My favorite course was "advanced" COBOL. (It was a two year community college, so "advanced" was more like the second course in the series of two.)
