@Enoch111 i agree with most of your post but when you need a plumber you don’t call a retired school teacher, correct? You call a plumber instead.
I think The Internet has made everyone an “expert” on a lot of things. People spent their entire lives on a particular career, medical or anything else.
I’ve been 25 years into IT (Information Technology) so I have a lot of experience on that field and I can tell right away when new people (at my job) don’t understand some concepts during troubleshooting.
Agree.
A “certificate”, Certifies one person has declared another person, has completed the works and testing, to qualify as “certified”, and a “certificate” is the “proof document” that person was “certified”.
Nothing whatsoever, does a “certificate”, mean “experienced”.
Nor does the “certificate” reveal “IF” that person “Cheated” on works and testing.
However....regular released stats reveal...(in anonymous polling)...an exponential number of “students”, in multiple age groups, from multiple backgrounds, in any field of study......regularly CHEAT!
In days gone by....a “certificate” in a field of study, was a Very Good indication of “student” knowing and understanding what they were being “certified” for. Means nothing today.
And the accumulation of: Titles, revealed by a list of ‘acronyms” that follow a persons name...may be true, may have been honestly earned, may have be give to a cheater or may be completely phony.
Agree.
People who do read, learn about a craft, often project themselves as “experienced”, but are not.