Would you rather have a teacher that cared about their job, but wasn't very smart, or that was very smart, but didn't care much about their job?

But is she hot

Intelligent a holes.
They are the ones who push boundaries.

Teachers don't have to be brilliant. They just have to know more than their students and how to teach them to think. Exceptionally intelligent people commonly make poor teachers because they lack the patience to help slower ones catch up.

As long as the teacher is slightly smarter (knowledgeable) than the pupil, passion and enthusiasm is preferable. If you learn 'how' to think the subject knowledge is self revealing.

I could handle an intelligent asshole better.
Something about passion, sincerity, and lack of intelligence [i]really[/i] gets under my skin.

They don't get paid enough to care.

That's tough.

I rather have a teacher that knew what they we teaching, not some government bullshit propaganda