&gt; It’s true that the average SAT score of high school students who plan to become teachers is below the national average.<p>If you ever take education classes, the first thing you&#x27;ll notice is that the people leading them tend to go out of their way to follow best practices for teaching &#x2F; learning.<p>Since most other classes only incorporate a handful of evidence-based teaching methods, and many times are structured around blatant anti-patterns, a lot of the ways these programs are structured are going to feel wrong to outside observers. But often there is some sort of theory &#x2F; research behind why they are the way they are.<p>Granted this applies more to Ivy league teaching programs and not random Internet diploma mills, but for what it&#x27;s worth.