Education schools and teacher certification illustrate the same licensing pattern: K-12 teachers must earn an education degree while university professors need none, yet examining what education schools actually teach shows it does not necessarily make people better teachers—paralleling how law school, an interesting intellectual experience, does not necessarily help with the practical work lawyers do.

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Clifford Winston

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going to law school which is an interesting intellectual experience perhaps doesn't necessarily help you very much in a lot of the practical things that that lawyers have to do

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Clifford Winston on Lawyers 09/5/2011EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:26:52 AM

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