Education
Please read this. I agree with it; do you?
Power concedes nothing without demand.
It never did and it never will.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress...
Power concedes nothing without demand.
It never did and it never will.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress...
2 comments:
I'm in general agreement with you and the columnist, but I do wonder about the effectiveness of spending more money on education generally. If teaching is the main purpose of education, why is it that administrators get paid so much more than teachers? I'd be more confident that additional money spent on education would actually be effective if it were linked to a readjustment of the relative pay scales between teachers and non-teachers; otherwise, if stimulus money is applied to increasing principals' salaries, I am doubtful that it will be as effective as it could be.
I can't disagree with your concerns - bloat in the administrative end of our education systems parallels the bloat in many of our institutions, like government, medical care, our military system and corporate business generally. Allocating wealth and power on the basis of popularity leads to control of resources by poorly qualified people. And people with power and/or wealth will never willingly give it up, but will waste their capabilities defending it (Thanks, Mr. Nietzche).
Education, in my view, is best organized, directed and rewarded LOCALLY; it's more responsible to the needs of the local economy and wishes of the people in each state.
But, having said that, it is clear to me that educational competence in the work force, and commitment to sane social motivation and progress has declined in each generation in America from my parents to the present.
It's a subject I can't do justice to in a brief comment, and one I'd enjoy palavering with you about over a glass of wine (or rum). Many thanks for the input; I'll get back to your as time permits.
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