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Originally Posted by Aces4
This is a joke. You could throw billions at any profession out there, surgeons, dentists, carpenters, chefs and you would still have extremely qualified workers and the duds. It’s the same with education. We all remember the gifted teachers in our classrooms who imparted wisdom and those who showed up every day to grind out another uninspired teaching assignment.
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When Finland sets its standards so high for teachers that only 1 out of 10 qualify - that pretty much GUARANTEES that there will be zero "DUDS" teaching their kids. Admittedly, in the US when I went to school there were mostly average teachers in high school - an example was a head football coach teaching health. One good teacher was teaching Spanish and one "DUD" was teaching Spanish. The Chemistry teacher was good. The Physics and Higher Algebra teachers were both excellent.
From what my wife tells me, the recent public education quality is bad and getting worse in Florida and other states. The US PUBLIC school system is like the base of a pyramid that needs to be strong to support the tip, which could be thought of as advanced A.I. and robotics, which leads to greater US GNP and economic strength.
In order to understand and prevent recessions we need the best and brightest economic students to graduate into jobs like staff members for the FED. Today we have a Taiwanese factory that produces the world's highest-quality CHIPS being built in Phoenix. The factory has one major problem, getting enough US engineers and other workers that meet their high standards. If the US wants to RECESSION-PROOF its economy, it needs to start improving education. US workforce millennials are LAST in math and problem-solving among industrialized countries.