farla.livejournal.com ([identity profile] farla.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] farla 2009-12-11 11:30 pm (UTC)

Why is it that people assume that just because you're X means you've also been trained in Y? Granted, I can understand dappling in a bit of psychology if you're a teacher because that's part of what a good education major does (assuming you actually majored in education in college), but just because you're a science teacher hardly means you're remotely well-versed in psychology.

Also, psychology is an absolute clusterfuck. It's like the poster child for why science needs to be properly falsifiable (or was, until evolutionary biology stole the post) There's at least a bit of weeding out with actual scientists, but teachers can be devotees of all sorts of stupid, out of date bullshit.

I'm just saying that if the average guy on the street told me something about psychology, I would think that was interesting, and if he told me he was a teacher next I'd figure it was probably either disproved or about to be.

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