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You tend to be a good teacher if you tend to be a generally competent person, and you tend to be a generally competent person if you have a lot of generalknowledge.
Generalknowledge makes you more competent on average no matter what job you do, whether it’s being a clerk, a mechanic, a plain GI, or a platoon leader.
That same generalknowledge test, the AFQT, was used in a big sociological study called “The Longitudinal Study of Youth.” This ongoing study has found the same thing the Army found about generalknowledge and life competence.