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by sschronk
6032 days ago
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I'm a college professor myself. It is a thankless job. You spend more than 20 years in school, washing dishes, working at a dead end job waiting for that moment when you finally get to teach. My teaching job pays about $30.00/Hr. However I only get to work about 25 hours a week or so. It's not much money to live on. Also realize the pressures of college teaching: Society needs you to teach skills to the students that they will need to excel. The students have been given a free ride all the way though High School. How do you teach C programming to students that cannot do any algebra and have no understanding of logic? If you make the class hard enough for them to excel in the global marketplace, all of the students drop out. It you make it easy enough for everyone to pass, you have scarcely covered the first one or two chapters of the book. |
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It's a political problem because a working democracy requires smart people that are able to understand complex issues and cast their vote accordingly. As an outsider it's probably easier to see, but American politics has turned into a farce where political issues matter much less than appearances on the right talkshows and hitting the lowest common denominator. The press has to play along with this, if they don't nobody will read their newspapers or see their newscasts. Jon Stewart, a comedian, is often seen as one of the best political reporters in the country.
It's an economic problem because in the future (and now) we have to be pretty darn smart to compete in the international arena, and India, China, etc. are basically eating Americas lunch.
Education is one of the best and most important investments a country can make, and to be frank I think it's despicable that a college professor doesn't make more than you do.