Those teachers are the worst ones, by the way. I've been studying education and learning styles for a couple years now, and the students who have the worst "test scores" (which I hate standardized testing) tend to have the teachers who take no interest in actually teaching - all they do is read right out of a book. I, as a teaching assistant, have taught my students more about Biology in one semester than they have learned in their entire lives because I took an interest in them - yet, I'll get paid much less than someone who phoned it in years ago because they got tenure. Do away with tenure, then you'll see that teaching is NOT just "something someone off the street" can do. You don't have to be remotely smart to re-read a book. That's how most teachers teach, and our education system is completely ***** up because of it...most of the students produced can barely read a whole book, balance a checkbook, or make an informed decision about whether or not to buy a product advertised on TV as being the "next miracle weight-loss pill!". To be someone who has made a person better not only in learning a subject, but giving them the tools they'll need to rationally think in the future...that, my friend, takes a special kind of person. No monkey could do that.