Overeducated

I've been nursing a theory for some time that there are certain fields in which any schooling beyond a bachelor's degree, in some cases a high school diploma, is too much. Journalism is the first area that made me think this, since reporting is probably better learned by experience and good writing is something that can't really be taught.
The second field is education.

Mirabile dictu! Someone agrees with me.

I think that boredom is only part of the problem. Another part is that PhD candidates are pressured to come up with some new approach after reviewing past research. They don't value what has really worked in the past, only was is new. Historians have the same problem--their field is already pretty trampled, and they're expected to chart a new path through it. If there is anything about education that seems demostrable, it is that repetition works. How many musicians have learned their instruments without practice, practice, practice? Yet current educational theory argues that the worst thing a teacher can do is bore the kids or be bored himself. There's a reason they call it schoolWORK.