There’s a saying about the teaching profession that’s well known to many and almost certainly well despised by teachers: “Those who can do; those who can’t teach.”
Of course, many teachers accept relatively low pay for challenging work because they find it tremendously rewarding and fulfilling. But the notion that teachers teach because they can’t execute the concepts they instruct is absurd. However, that doesn’t make it any less surprising to learn how many teachers seem to be leaving education and entering the corporate world.
