So the solution is basically &quot;teach to the test&quot; for teachers? I don&#x27;t agree.<p>The problems in our education system go way, way beyond teacher quality. Several of my friends are teachers, they&#x27;re brilliant people, and they&#x27;re hindered by the very structure of the system: standardized testing, unions, the very notion that one person lecturing to 20 students - a &quot;push&quot; educational supply system really works. We have the internet now... I prefer to pull what I want to know when I need to know it.<p>Remember that the U.S. education system has only really been around for what? 150 years? Our species has been learning for 10,000 years.. we got along OK before it. We shouldn&#x27;t take anything about that system as holy writ.<p>How much institutional learning do we use in our everyday lives? I would argue very little, and that the best way to learn how to do a job is generally to go do it, and to ask questions along the way.