So in the 1920s teaching might have been a vocation.
Teachers were given great benefits!
Maybe housing, maybe food, a salary.
Teachers were the moral and often intellectual heart of a society.
Today teaching in many ways is given the big slap with a wet fish!
"You don't teach to get rich!"
Uhhh why not?
Do lawyers practice law in the factory model for the fun? Some but the majority are compensated dearly.
Doctors? Sure some are doing it for the humanitarian aspects other are well rolling in it!
I think that the corporate community is benefiting from great educators and feeding them a nice story that you teach for the better good!
BULL!
Time to re imagine teaching and education and make education the dream and not settle for a patch job of a flawed factory model of 1920...
James Piecowye took over Nightline in October 2006 until it was canceled in June 2018. The cast and crew of Nightline decided to keep the show going and this is where James posts the notes.
2 comments:
i wonder why teachers get paid the least of all the those with degrees. I am about to become one, (i am currently in my senior year)
and I planning to work somewhere that is not in a school since all educators get a little wage or may not be payed at all. What am i going to do with 1400?(mind you some people get paid less)buy a couch perhaps?. my ipod is worth more than that!. I think that the entire world is conspiring against teachers, wherever you go in the world, you'll hear that teachers are the ones paid least.
There is a lot to be worried about in education today and maybe we need more bright lights looking at it as a career!
How might we dull a glistening nation?
1. Pay the dullest and least impressive to educate the children.
2. Create a system of teaching that judges everything as "correct" or "incorrect." This will allow the dull and unimpressive to easily grade the children's tests.
3. Discourage exploration.
4. Reward conformity. Teach that inside the box is good.
5. Celebrate sports. Make sure the children understand that taller, stronger kids have natural advantages that cannot be overcome. Build stadiums and hire announcers to shout the names of students who display physical dominance.
6. Minimize school concerts and science fairs and art shows. Treat them as though they're for losers. Have them in the school cafeteria.
Follow these 6 Simple Steps
and you can expect:
1. Drop-Outs. Currently, 38 percent of America's children are dropping out of high school and that number is rising.
2. Cloned Repetition. Have you noticed that every mall has exactly the same stores as every other mall and that every city has all the same restaurants?
3. Death of Industry. The cars of once-mighty GM and Ford no longer excite us. We want cars designed by the children of foreigners.
4. Street Gangs. If school taught us anything, it's that physical dominance is the key to reward.
An outsider, observing how we educate our children, would be forced to conclude that we value:
1. Efficient mediocrity, and
2. Going in circles
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