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[goman72]

I agree with ResiWorld, TalkDoc your insight is truely 'insightful' !!

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[Erich]

Whats so interesting is all that is needed is a bachelor's degree and you are a foreign professional "qualified" to teach english! Damn! I shouldn't have dropped out of basket weaving college! Whoops, then china would lose 85% of it's english teachers!

[tofuman]

Earlier, in this discussion I suggested that fake degrees may be appropriate for a fake educational system. I am now prepared to illustrate my meaning with an experience at a government middle school:

Finals for the term are carefully monitored and conducted very officially; however, any student who fails is given the opportunity to take a "make up" exam. It is clearly stated that this exam should be easier than the original exam.I recently corrected some make up exams and discovered that nearly every student in the two classes that I corrected had almost the exact same answers on the exam. The true false/questions had the same right and wrong answers, the multiple choice questions the same.

I then came to the third class and decided to look at the tests of a couple of students who sleep through the class, make no effort whatsoever to do homework, participate in class, or do any exercises. They had about the same answers as all the other students. This would mean that the students are probably going to pass simply by showing up for a make up exam and cheating on it.

This is what I call "fake education." No degree of any kind is required to participate in academic fraud. Any professional educator who would participate in a scheme like this is a disgrace to their profession.

The idea that an expert of any kind or a degreed person is needed to perpetuate this kind of dishonesty is utterly absurd.
To decry this kind of "education" is not cynicism at all, but the rational approach to a system as flawed as the people who designed it.