The real worst teacher at Hogwarts

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No: HPFGUIDX 57016

>This all leads to another question. 

> 
>Hogwarts is THE school in Britain, and on par with the best schools 
>in Europe. Why the hell can't they attract a better quality of 
>teacher? 
> 
>Yeah, yeah, it's not a real school. But still, one would think 
>professors would fight to teach at Hogwarts. Instead, Dumbledore 
>seems to be left with the dregs. 
> 
>Darrin 

 

I agree it does seem a little odd.  

 

But then it does appear that there is no formal teacher training 
requirement for the teachers, that is, they appear not to need to 
have a professional teaching qualification.  Which is certainly 
consistant with the hiring of staff for public schools (though not 
state ones).  

 

And if there isn't enough of an interest in teaching for it to be 
worthwhile to have a course to train them, it could be that isn't 
enough interest in vacant positions at Hogwarts to have to the option 
of choosing a better candidate.  Also, if Hogwarts is the only school 
in Britain it may be that not very many people consider teaching as 
an option because possibility of actually getting a job is severely 
limited by the number of positions vacant at just one school.

 

Also, in the cases of Lockhart and Quirrell:

 

Lockhart seems to have been hired largely on the strength of his 
reputation and assumed 'practical' experience in the field and 
certainly seemed to have had a large body of written work to support 
the notion that he at least knew what he was talking about, even if 
his books were written in a self agrandising way.

 

Quirrell had been competent until he took the sabatical where 
he 'picked up' Voldemort. Or as Hagrid says, 

 

//He was fine while he was studyin' outa books but then he took a 
year off ter get some first handand experience// PS, pg 55

 

Besides, surely we can assume that the other teachers at Hogwarts are 
competent...?

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