Teachers should be paid as much as that of lawyers and doctors. |
In a few years ago, I had a small talk with Amreican English teachers. In the tallk, I was surprised to hear that he usually has a part-time jobs every summer vacation. Also, I was even shocked more to hear that the part-time job was only for financial reasons. Nobody can deny that education is one of the most important invisible social intrastructures in a modern society. However, in reality, teachers are not paid as much as lawyers despite their values in our society.
As far as I am concered, I strongly believe that teachers need more attention from society and appropriate payement. Although laywers have its unique role in our community, we need to think over which job has more influence on our society in the long term. To illustrate, if this low payment continues, it will be unavoidabe that our children will perish at least in education field.because many educational experts will not remain in this field. In addition they will persue the more lucrative jobs for their own future. This, eventually, will lead to brittle education structures and children will have to learn from unskilled teachers.
The more important reaon for that is the lower payment to teachers will deprive the current teachers of their passion and interest in education. If this is true, we will see the severe consequences in the forseeable future. Who wants to continue the lower payment job? If we insist on their duty without proper reward, I think it will push them in thier limit, and in the end the undesirable influence will be on our children, who have the right to learn from qualified teachers.
In brief, I do not insist that laywers should be paid lower than teachers. At least, in this abject environment, if we insist that education be the most important thing in our society, this will be only lip service to teachers. We need more pratical and specific steps to be taken as early as possible.
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