CB> MS>You're talking _credentials_, not whether the teacher 
CB> MS>can effectively teach his subject.
CB> MS>Is either a 4-year degree or teacher certification a real 
CB> predictor of 
CB> MS>whether an industrial-arts teacher will be a good teacher?
CB> 
CB> I don't know, never having researched the topic.  Is 7 years of 
CB> college 
CB> a real predictor of whether a lawyer will be a good barrister?  
    No!
    Law school is a big waste of time, with most class work totally unrelated 
to trying cases or doing other work most lawyers do.  Classwork is generally 
theory-oriented; a course on wills doesn't even include one exercise (or text 
example) of how to write one.  And the classes don't even prepare students 
for the bar exam...most every graduate takes a bar-cram course before taking 
the bar!
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