Studies show no correlation between education courses and teaching success. Many private schools don't require such courses and some don't even want to hire people who have been through such drivel. As for the teacher who wanted me to tell her what to do in the classroom, that is not my job. My job is to try to help inform the public, so that they get teachers like her out of the classroom. Nor is more money either necessary or sufficient to attract better people.
Private schools get better people while paying lower salaries than the public schools.
So long as education courses drive away intelligent people, more money will just mean more expensive incompetents in the schools. JWR contributor Thomas Sowell, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, is author, most recently, of The Quest for Cosmic Justice.