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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  A person teaching basic skills to a class of 20 people doesn't have much leverage, so the pay reflects it. A person teaching basic skills to 20,000 people can earn a lot more, as can a person teaching advanced skills to 20 people. A person who can teach advanced skills to 20,000 people will queue up a lot of social debt. |
That makes more sense to me. However, people still need to be taught basic skills? Primary (Junior?) school teachers do that because they love young children, they may very well have advanced skills too - in nurturing and compassion, say
But they teach basic arithmetic, and basic spelling....
But if a kid doesn't learn basic arithmetic, he's going to have a hard time learning calculus, and an even harder time learning advanced astro-physics. My point, I guess, is that we under-value basic skills. Somebody has to teach them, and not everybody can learn from a book or a television show as effectively as they can from a teacher.
In other words, your blog only works because everyone who comes to it can read - and thus assimilate the information. And the only reason everyone can read is because a bunch of primary teachers sat us down and went "A is for Apple...." a long time ago.