Doctor Defense

Teachers and their supporters have developed numerous defenses that have become overused. These defenses almost seem conditioned due to their tendency to show up just about every time that they encounter the appropriate trigger.

Trigger:

This is a common defense when someone questions the value of schooling or when someone questions whether or not teachers are really as important as they claim.

Argument:

If it weren’t for the schools, we wouldn’t have any doctors.

Flaws:

This argument relies on the idea that if we didn’t have the schools that our current model for hiring doctors relies on, no hiring model could exist.

There is nothing that can be learned in school that can’t be learned elsewhere. Without the schools, people would still learn the skills for the profession. A new hiring model would be created to fill the necessary jobs. Since schools rely on sharing knowledge that has already been established, people with their own ideas would be more likely to influence the profession without our current restrictions. Doctors would exist without the schools, and the profession would be more progressive.

Related Misconception:

Misconception #27: We could not have doctors or other important professions without the schools