We need the government out of Education (among the many other things they need to be out of)
Very true.
Maybe they don't want to become teachers precisely because they are the best and the brightest.
What does the author suggest to make the best and the brightest want to become teachers?
My mom, a teacher for several years, would agree with this. Her take on it, however, was that not only were the teachers women, but the administrators were women. She claimed that administration policies changed when the men took over and all sorts of problems were introduced: new (unproven)curriculums, lack of discipline, inability to properly relate to parents, too much reliance on standardized test scores, .....
Men and women become surgeons and bankers etc because those jobs allow them to make as much money as their talents allow!
As soon as education is removed from the grip of the government and the unions, then the most qualified people, men and women, will want to enter it as a profession. If you have a passion to do something and the pay is dependent on your ability to do your job well, then you will want to be the very best that you can be!
So, if you don’t want to be a teacher? You know, some of those men with high paying positions could give them up and become teachers as well.
I’d rather have a teacher who wants to teach than someone who’s there because they can’t do the job they really want to do.
Well, sorta. First, you would have to prove that nurses today are a lot dumber, as nursing was open to women en masse long before even teaching was.
I have always believed that teachers should be paid as much or more as any doctor. Because a doc only focuses on issues as they arise. A teacher is molding a life in a society that parental figures with time and gumption on their hands are few and far between.
I have to disagree with the author. Look at the success of homeschooling mothers. They don’t all have teaching degrees or even a college education.
Had the same set of thoughts 10+ years ago.
Most people don’t realize it - because for older people - we graft the capabilities of our old teachers on the newer ranks.
For the younger people - they have never known anything different.
The best and the brightest now homeschool their kids.
Socialist indoctrination day care centers are not for the family that knows it can teach their own.
I heard this theory years ago...and it makes as much sense now as it did then.
But we don’t need to go back to that age. If the schools decided to make kids behaved, and the teachers’ unions stopped controlling who can teach (and protecting those who couldn’t), I would expect that there would be TONS of applicants from our army of retired people, who don’t have enough money to jetset around the world (or, for certain, who soon won’t have enough money to jetset around the world...once our dollar collapses).
Sooo... those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.