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zell565@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce; they should be making six figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to it citizens, just like national defense.”

I hate how a 23 year old quote from the West Wing is still so relevant…

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tea@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Next line speaks to that…still.

“That’s my position. We just haven’t figured out how to do it yet.”

This might be the most memorable quote from the entire run of the West Wing for me. Our teachers are doing their job out of good will and our society is taking advantage of them because their value far outstrips what they are paid.

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- tym@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We’re several generations deep into a manufactured apathy meant to fragment and dilute any workers rights reforms
  
  We stumbled into work from home due to the pandemic, but that genie will be put back in the bottle within 2 generations.
  
  Robber barons never left, they just got smarter.
  
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Acters@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
All of this is true,
instead of happening in schools for the advancement of knowledge,
it is happening in corporations for profits and egotistical power trips.

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