24 May
2021
24 May
'21
6:33 a.m.
J Leslie Turriff wrote:
IMO the underlying problem (at least in the US) is the
low pay provided in
the education industry, which drives out those with good teaching skills.
In the school I attended after moving to the US, math was taught by the
athletics coach! I also wonder about the abilities of the people who set
the curricula standards.
Well US ... the movie Idiocracy fits the best. In Austria the teachers are
very well payed, but since the 80ies are indoctrinated to the left -
especially the humanitarian subjects.
The only rational thinking people in this country are technicians and nature
science.
The pay is not the only issue, although a major one. I agree with you here ,
but want to add that the whole society is responsible for this shift