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Originally Posted by Jazuela
Education is sort of important.
Pay them more. Pay more taxes. Be grateful that there are people willing to do this kind of work, and give them more tools to do it successfully. The future leader of this country might be among that 3rd grade classroom of kids. We should strive to make every single child succeed. They won't all succeed. But it's our responsibility to do whatever is necessary to give them the same chance as every other kid in the country.
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Yes, most people refer to education as an expense they have to pay in the form of a tax, and many complain that they should not have to pay it if they don't have kids. This ignores the investment aspect of education and how all of us benefit from having an educated population. Money spent on education reduces medical costs (shared by all of us in the form of insurance, etc) reduces crime rates and the related cost of law enforcement and our penal system, improves productivity and government tax revenues, etc, etc, etc.
Education is a wise investment. That does not mean that we should just throw money at it, I am convinced that there is enormous waste in our education system and a lot of that waste could be reduced.