Partly the problem is that in our current social status is based on aspirations (not money) but on our desire to suceed, keep learning and get better.

Teaching is not really an aspirational job. You start as a teacher and you will finish as maybe a senior teacher. You don’t really go anywhere.

Maybe we need to change the way teachers live their lives. A school teacher invented the telegraph (and stolen by a guy named morse) the submarine and I believe Chairman Mao was a school teacher before he became the leader of China.

So, if we want to get better teachers we need to have a greater amount of career diversity. We need to allow teachers to move on to other things but still stay in their career.

Yes the courses are easy, because it is the only way to attract enough teachers into the profession.

I have bought pencils, paper, all kinds of stuff that I need to TEACH what I am supposed to….ok, I will stop….but you are right