physical education teachers are not smart

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chicago510
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Jan 26, 2012 10:34pm
ccrunner609;1067138 wrote:Sure, I was in a dozen classes with all premed students. Our Anatomy teachers were the profs in the med building. In regards to just taking classes and actually doing stuff with the material................we took "applied" classes where you didnt learn things but had to use things.
There's a reason you are a gym teacher and not a doctor. It's either motivation or aptitude.
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dwccrew
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Jan 26, 2012 10:38pm
chicago510;1067218 wrote:There's a reason you are a gym teacher and not a doctor. It's either motivation or aptitude.
Or both.
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ernest_t_bass
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Jan 26, 2012 10:42pm
Ccrunner, where did you go to school?
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dwccrew
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Jan 26, 2012 10:45pm
ccrunner609;1067228 wrote:I never said that any PE teacher goes to med school, we were taking classes with them. Sure some at 101 level but my Ex Phys classes and Bio classes were 400 and up.
You didn't have to say that, I already knew that. Not some, most were at the 101 level (the pre-med type courses). Bio and Ex. Phys classes at the 400 level? Oh my, what a challenge!
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I Wear Pants
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Jan 26, 2012 11:21pm
ccrunner609;1067059 wrote:PE teaching degrees are Bachelors of Science. They are very difficult in regards to spending 2 years in basically premed classes.

I took biomechanics and Kinesiology, anatomy and phys., I took extra exercise physiology courses to get an extra certificate or endorsement. Most colleges require a health degree also. It is 2 years of pretty intense and deep science courses
Did you take a Kinesiology class or several? Because it's a major.

That'd be akin to me getting some basic personal training certificate after taking a class and trying to equate it to me being knowledgeable in the field. I wouldn't be, people with exercise science degrees with an ACSM cert and their CSCS are.

The problem with your assertion that gym teachers are highly educated in the field of athletic movements, or kinesiology, or anatomy, or whatever is that I have never met, and I don't think anyone else here has either, a gym teacher that would qualify as such. We played some sports, had a very basic lifting coursework, did tests on things like BMI and rules of sports. That's basically it.
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jmog
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Jan 27, 2012 7:37am
By CCrunner's logic, since I took 3 classes in quantum mechanics/physics I am just like a theoretical physicist! Just call me Einstein.
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ernest_t_bass
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Jan 27, 2012 7:54am
jmog;1067411 wrote:By CCrunner's logic, since I took 3 classes in quantum mechanics/physics I am just like a theoretical physicist! Just call me Einstein.
CCRunner is stupid. So, if you're stupid, then yes, that makes you a theoretical physicist.