• Supercritical
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    171 year ago

    Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.

    A phrase that would bounce around when I was in grad school.

    • @wintermutehal@lemmy.world
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      401 year ago

      I find this phrase rather demeaning. I am a damn good Instructional Designer, but I would eventually like to teach this to others.

    • @snooggums@midwest.social
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      261 year ago

      The saying sucks because it implies that they tried doing something in the private field and failed into teaching. Most teachers went directly into teaching, so they succeeded.

    • @John_McMurray@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      Yeah that’s so out of context that it speaks to the intelligence of students repeating it. It came from the old trades and people retiring into teaching after they literally couldn’t do it anymore, not that they weren’t once capable. Very similar to the “Bad apples” quote.