With a nod to Mike Klonsky's Small Talk Blog, it's amazing how little has changed since Martin Luther King Jr's time. -cpg
"...The richest nation on Earth has never allocated enough resources to build sufficient schools, to compensate adequately its teachers, and to surround them with the prestige our work justifies. We squander funds on highways, on the frenetic pursuit of recreation, on the overabundance of overkill armament, but we pauperize education."
-- From March 14, 1964 speech by Dr. Martin Luther King upon accepting the John Dewey Award from the United Federation of Teachers.
This is so true. There would be no one in the high paying jobs, no one with all the technical knowledge needed today without their lower grade teachers. The question is, shouldn't teacher's be paid the highest salary? There are no career's without them, therefore no economic future.
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