As an educator who repeatedly gets feedback how good my classes are I have no problem sparking creativity. But let it be said: Teaching is damn hard. Now I tea

As an educator who repeatedly gets feedback how good my classes are I have no problem sparking creativity. But let it be said: Teaching is damn hard. Now I teach at the university level, but this only makes certain things (the material) harder and others (the teaching) way easier. Maybe after the pandemic some people understand this more than before — the hard part isn't the material, it is getting a group of wildly different people (kids) on board with the material you are teaching, help them to focus, to see the light, to get through material they don't understand etc. If you don't totally burn for the material (and doing so is unliklier with the typically stiffer curriculum on schools) — it will take a lot of effort to pull this off in a good way. Effort that not every teacher will be able to muster under crunching work loads, where the preperation has to be done at home. Effort that doesn't pay the bills better. Good teachers are purely idealists. They receive no incentive to be good teachers other than their own intrinsic motivation. So the problem the system has to prevent first and foremost is to enable average educators to teach better, because finding enough exceptional educators will not be possible. And you do this by adjusting the incentive structure.