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Old 17-07-2011, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by OICURMT View Post
Agreed... and herein lies the rub. Educators are being marginalized.

<slight off-topic rant>
One of my biggest concerns is the simple fact that we, as a society, feel it is ok to underpay the people who educate our children, who will eventually be future leaders (scientist, educators, politicians, everyday working man etc...) of this world.

I will never understand why we spend thousands on our kids for Computers, Consoles, "designer this" ... "designer that" and then complain when the people who educate our children want more pay because they have to get second jobs in order to make ends meet... the extra minimal cost to society will reap back a dividend several fold over being passive and doing nothing.
</slight off-topic rant>


Guiding children to think for themselves in a logical fashion and question the world around them allows us to neutralize the problem before it starts...

Get them early and the world opens up... get them late and you have the blind being lead by the blind.


OIC!

<BTW: I am not an educator, nor is anyone in my family. I dated one once... but let's not get into that >
Interesting that this discussion has zoomed in on the Education system.

Whatever happened to parental responsibilities in all this ?

Teachers/Education systems are the dumping ground for many of society's undesirable tasks.

Cheers
PS: And "no" … I am not a professional teacher !
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