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The fact that teachers aren't motivated more by greater rewards for excellence (money), but are strongly motivated by having a job with excellent security even

• intended 14y ago
  Or teachers are rewarded by educating students, and don't look at it from a totally mercenary perspective. Which is generally what you want from teachers who ideally can be a students champion, guide, educator all at once, for a short span of time. Once you tell someone their performance is only correlated with income, then they focus on those levers to manage it. And once you have a sufficiently complex role, such an incentive structure ceases to be useful, and ends up killing creativity and open minded ness.