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you're right, it's not important to have an educated citizenry. we can just set them up with iPads and have them watch YouTube all day for a lot less - let's ge

you're right, it's not important to have an educated citizenry. we can just set them up with iPads and have them watch YouTube all day for a lot less - let's get a couple startups going on this ASAP - keywords: disruption, innovation, EdTech, Hadoop in all seriousness, i'd love for the US government to throw serious cash at teachers' salaries. it's basically a wise investment in the country's future. so what if they're daycare teachers? we have plenty of $ to spend on providing a safe place and food for our children in the US for 8 hours a day. a lot of the money is spent on the backend on welfare or prisons anyway, so it's probably not very expensive when the externalities are factored in. looking outside the US, i think Finland understood they had no resources other than timber, snow, and their population and started tooling up their educational system, to the tune of high salaries/prestige/perks or something for teachers (someone will correct me here). anyway, they do really well on int'l standardized tests (yes this is not ideal, but is useful at least as a relative measurement) and seem to have one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, low GINI, etc. if it weren't so darned cold and dark seasonally, i'd be interested in relocating there for the sake of my children's education.

gridlockd 7y ago
> You're right, it's not important to have an educated citizenry. Did you, in all honesty, go through the public school system and came out with an "yeah we need more like that"? Seriously? > in all seriousness, i'd love for the US government to throw serious cash at teachers' salaries. it's basically a wise investment in the country's future. You really believe that? > so what if they're daycare teachers? we have plenty of $ to spend on providing a safe place and food for our children in the US for 8 hours a day. Schools, a safe place? Where did even you go to school? > a lot of the money is spent on the backend on welfare or prisons anyway, so it's probably not very expensive when the externalities are factored in. I'm pretty sure most of the prison inmates had their share of public education. > Finland You can't just pick your favorite nordic country and act like it is representative of anything. What about France? Total free government education and massive youth unemployment. What about Spain? Everyone is running around with one or more degrees, but no job.

gridlockd 7y ago

> You're right, it's not important to have an educated citizenry. Did you, in all honesty, go through the public school system and came out with an "yeah we need more like that"? Seriously? > in all seriousness, i'd love for the US government to throw serious cash at teachers' salaries. it's basically a wise investment in the country's future. You really believe that? > so what if they're daycare teachers? we have plenty of $ to spend on providing a safe place and food for our children in the US for 8 hours a day. Schools, a safe place? Where did even you go to school? > a lot of the money is spent on the backend on welfare or prisons anyway, so it's probably not very expensive when the externalities are factored in. I'm pretty sure most of the prison inmates had their share of public education. > Finland You can't just pick your favorite nordic country and act like it is representative of anything. What about France? Total free government education and massive youth unemployment. What about Spain? Everyone is running around with one or more degrees, but no job.