In education, credentials are seen as something so essential. There are your degrees, your teaching licenses from the State, and all sorts of additional training you can go for.

Naturally, learning about pedagogy can be great, but so many university courses (leading up to your government licenses) are full of theories and, more often than not, ideology. Little time is spent on the practical training of a teacher.

So while someone may have a degree in education or have a license from the State, those credentials don't automatically confer the skills, experience, nor expertise we have come to expect of educators. Those will often come from years of actively teaching in the classroom as well as serious reflection on the part of each teacher.

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