Quote (dude_927 @ 21 Apr 2016 11:43)
"teacher" has always been a sidejob, this is going to sound crazy to you if you think of education as a commodity, but there are scientists/researchers who teach as a secondary job (in my experiences, most do, but i haven't checked statistics)
exploration/colonization used to be incentive enough, very soon it will be again, our generation just happened to miss out. Short term incentives won't motivate the lazy and won't deterr the determined.
i'm not saying free education is easy, or even economically viable at the moment, what i am saying, is that it should be. We shouldn't have second rate degree mills, we shouldnt have 400k per year gym teachers, we shouldnt have to pay 22k for 1.5 year tuition. education shouldn't be a commodity.
I'm totally with you about teaching being an area of expertise. I find teaching degrees to be a cop-out, really all they learn is how to teach people how to read their text books.
I'm not a fan of being taught by someone who is not an expert in the field.
Sports funding is excessive without a doubt, but this is where the notion of a free degree - and that which Bernie would be advocating - needs to be stipulated in fine point, so that people don't simply see it as another way to get easy money from the government.