I don't know what you do for a living. I imagine it is outside my area of expertise. Please understand that I would not dare to spout off about what you do if I were ignorant of what your profession entails.

That is called Dunning Kruger.

Please understand that you don't know much about the education profession. I am not trolling you. In fact, quite the opposite. I am asking you to have some humility about one of the most talked about professions.

As this article proves, it is mostly talked about by people who have no idea of what they are talking about. Unfortunately, this poorly researched article is from the The Conversation and not Phys.org. Phys just reprinted the article.

As a professional from this profession, I can tell you that all I hear from people who are incapable of doing what I do on a daily basis is how to do my job better, how we are failing at it, and how they know how to do it better.

Understand that none of these talking heads could last a day where I teach, that there is more to teaching than memorize and regurgitate, and that the phrase "sage on a stage" has been outdated since the early 1990s.

Everything you say here, I have heard before, by plenty of (possibly well meaning) naive people. They will even claim all sorts of bizarre claims about education because they "heard it on the internet" or "heard it on the news." My favorite is when they argue about how politicians can't possibly be trusted until lo, they talk about ed. lulz