Electrical Engineers can only do one thing, as well.
Or Physics majors.
Or Art majors.
Or lawyers.
Or anyone that ever graduated from college.
Point is, you can't say teachers as a whole aren't qualified to only do one thing without including every single person to ever graduate from college.
But I can say (and am, in fact, saying) that what they are qualified to do is not commensurate with their influence.
Back to my main point: Fortsbest posted an article about a teacher very clearly abusing his power by lecturing his students about his own biased, and very clearly ignorant, viewpoint.
That's exactly it. This guy is the equivalent of an English major. Who the F is he to be lecturing these kids about his opinion? It's not even the subject matter he's supposed to be teaching (not as if he's an expert on that either, as I'm sure he doesn't have a math degree when he teaches math, a chemistry or biology degree when he teaches chemistry or biology, or a law degree when he teaches social studies).
Yet MOST of them are not any smarter than this guy, and MOST of them do the exact same thing, because their position as being "generalists" and not specialized in anything encourages them to pontificate on general learning which inevitably includes political correctness (which is also, of course, formulated and propagated by their employers... the state).
At least most of the ones I have ever experienced, either via myself or through family or acquaintances, are like that.
I'm only qualified to do one thing as a bankruptcy attorney, but people don't come asking for my opinion on gay marriage. They come ask about filing bankruptcy.
Oh, and teachers (at the secondary level) aren't supposed to be experts, you intellectual elitist). They are meant to teach the fundamentals of their craft. The experts are at the collegiate level.
Feh, "general education" is mostly worthless. You could cut the time spent at college in half by getting rid of all the bullshit, same can be said of highschool and elementary school.
Kids should be put into apprenticeship much earlier.