Kate Brown Ch 2 Q6

A passage that stood out to me was the one about how much teachers get paid. People are always hearing about how teachers don't get paid enough. Despite the fact that that is true the reason behind it was something I had never thought of before. The incentive behind how much teachers get paid is that the people who are above average in intelligence will do something that will pay on a productivity basis. It also proves that those who remain teachers are those who are the most dedicated. The problem with this is that when a highly intelligent person looks for work outside of the educational system they are not passing their knowledge onto the next generation. At the same time those who fall back on the job of teaching not because they feel as though they can be beneficial to the field but rather because there is simply nothing else they are capable of doing, end up being the ones shaping the next generation.