Equal Opportunities Hurt Schools?

Another interesting comment one of my professors made in class the other day was "Affirmative action has hurt our school systems badly." The reason? It used to be that the brightest and the best of women would go teach school, greatly improving the school system. Now the women go off to be lawyers and doctors and the people who tend to teach primary school are not the brightest and the best. Teaching pays so poorly here that people become teachers often because they don't know what else to do. Some believe I should be a teacher, that or a nurse. Probably because they are traditional women's jobs. I know most of my teachers in grade school through the end of high school were NOT the best in the world. They were not bright or clever, they were just everyday people. I wonder what schools would be like if they did still attract the best of the best of women. Because we all know women are smarter than guys right? *runs*