RE: We are the leaders of tomorrow

Most teachers get paid shit, eat shit for lunch and get shit from parents after getting stepped on by explosive kids and going through mind fields every day. Complicated with Corona and infections in the school and a teacher's job is a headache... but that has little to do with the importance of higher education.

Personally I think secondary education is basically crap. Very little "knowledge" is passed down from teachers or books to students compared to "knowledge" passed down by friends or other sources. Simply put "education is not about knowledge" and it never should have been. The word "education" means trained or raised. It's funny. The word comes from ēducātiō which also means "breeding". It has nothing to do with knowledge... maybe a little to do with understanding. I have seen too many textbooks to know that they are drenched in propaganda.

Teachers either work for the government or a private institution or person. They are basically subject to what that institution or government or person requires. They don't go around imparting knowledge to young people. Their job is to make an environment for learning. In many cases the education system that should be supporting that environment just makes it more difficult for the teacher and the students. A lot of our school system's inability to operate at the moment is due to presidential candidates afraid that students will spread covid in the schools. They don't care about rearing children. They want a big show. So they cut the little things and they give a free lunch, free vaccines, free tuition and any other showy thing at the expensive of basic needs of students.

And as for Albert Einstein... I think he only spent like two years teaching and that was in Berlin. He occasionally lectured, but most of his contributions came in the form of writings and collaborations. There is a big gap between teaching and intellectual advancement. The best thing a teacher can do is get out of the way and allow students to think, play, write, sing and dance until students learn things about themselves and others. It's useless if kids can solve some math problems and recall information if they are all assholes when they grow up.

Higher education facilities accept students with higher test scores. Those scores mostly prove the student paid for private tutoring and test preparation. It doesn't mean the student actually learned anything. Post secondary education fees increase much higher than the cost of living but I don't see that going to encourage professors to learn to teach. I was one of the lucky ones. My professor was at the top of his field and had studied with Nobel Laureates. But if I learned anything from him and his life it's that the field is bull shit and politics. The best thing I learned was to leave. That's why I'm teaching little kids half way around the world.