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Originally Posted by InterfaceLeader  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. |
Another thing with this in relation to Steve's answer above, is the law of supply & demand. There are a lot of people going into primary school teaching, which keeps the pay level down. An additional thing is the skill level required to teach primary-level skills, as compared with teaching advanced astrophysics. It simply is easier to become trained as a primary school teacher than as an astrophysicst who also can teach effectively.