Strike over teachers' pay closes thousands of schools in U.K.

More than a million children are affected by the strike over teachers' pay.
This is what happens when governments’ priorities are mixed up.
Governments find the necessary funds to send troops in foreign Countries to wage wars based on false information, but they come across many difficulties in taking care of the very basic needs on the nation: EDUCATION.
Any investment in Education has a long and beneficial effect on the future of the Nation.

Education for a better world

If a small percentage of the money spent for the “war on terror” would be invested in education, the entire world would be a better and safer place.
The best and the only way to promote democracy is through education, by building schools, giving free access to the less fortunate children.
Educated children will be able to make better choices for their lives, and will not be enticed by any type of religious or political radicals.
It is rather regrettable that during any election campaign “education” seems to be a back-burner issue, instead of being the main subject.
Money invested in education has a lifelong valuable effect on any society.
There are already many rewards in learning: gaining understanding of yourself and others.
Learning is also the route to more commonplace rewards, like getting into good colleges and getting good jobs.
Teachers’ unions should be agents of progress and not stalemate.
Better salaries for teachers will increase the quality of the school system.
The assumption that underlies the project is simple: people respond to incentives.If you want people to do something, you have to make it worth their while.
This assumption drives virtually all of economic theory.

Education and the racial divide

Studies show that many poor but bright children do not receive good advice about applying for college and scholarships, or do not receive help after starting college.
In recent years, 11 percent of children from the poorest families, in the USA, have earned college degrees, compared with 53 percent of children from the top fifth.
The researchers found that Hispanic and black Americans were falling behind whites and Asians in earning college degrees, making it harder for them to enter the middle class or higher.
The study highlights the powerful role that college can have in helping people change their station in life. Someone born into a family in the lowest fifth of earners who graduates from college has a 19 percent chance of joining the highest fifth of earners in adulthood and a 62 percent chance of joining the middle class or better.
The authors of the study, by scholars at the Brookings Institution in Washington and sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, warned that widening gaps in higher education between rich and poor, whites and minorities, could soon lead to a downturn in opportunities for the poorest families.
Economic mobility, the chance that children of the poor or middle class will climb up the income ladder, has not changed significantly over the last three decades.

Respect is an important ingredient in education

The respect of the boy to the teacher will make him easy to guide, and so the question of punishment will never come up.
Therefore one great cause of fear which at present poisons all the relations between the teacher and his pupils will vanish.
When the teacher has learned to look upon his work as dedicating him to the service of humanity, then he will become part of the great “Teaching Department of the world”.
We could all argue that many children could not be managed in this way.
The answer is these children have been already marked by bad treatment. Nonetheless, they must be slowly improved by greater patience and constant attention.
This is the only and sure way to succeed when tried.
Living in this atmosphere of respect during school hours, the boy will become a better son and a better brother at home, and will bring home with him a feeling of strength, instead of coming home, as he generally does, depressed and tired.
When he, in turn, becomes the head of a household, he will fill it with the respect in which he has been brought up.

Each teacher should be passionate about his work

A teacher full of passion for his work and sympathy will interest the children and make their school life a pleasant one. Children are very eager to learn and if a teacher cannot interest them and make them love their lessons, he is not fit to be a teacher and should choose another profession.A sympathetic teacher draws out all the good qualities in his pupils,and his gentleness prevents them from being afraid of him. Each student then shows himself just as he is, and the teacher is able to see the line best suited to him and to help him to follow it. To such a teacher a child will come with all his difficulties, knowing that he will be met with sympathy and kindness, and, instead of hiding his weaknesses, he will be glad to tell everything to one of whose caring help he is sure. The good teacher should remember his own youth, so he can feel sympathetic with the student who comes to him. This consideration of the teacher for his students, in helping them, willbring out best from the child in turn, and as he looks up to his teacherthis care will take the form of reverence. Reverence, beginning in this way with the boy, will grow as he grows older, and will become his natural habit in life.

The importance of a good teacher

No person ought to be a teacher, ought to be allowed to be aTeacher, unless he/she has shown in his daily life that respect for others and patience are the strongest quality of his/her nature. Just as a boy shows his natural capacities at an early age for one profession or another, so a particularly strong love-nature would mark a boy out as specially fitted to be an instructor.
Such boys should be definitely trained for the office of the teacher.
Children who are preparing for all careers live a common life in the sameschool, and they can only become useful to the nation, if theirschool life is happy. A young child is naturally happy, and if that happiness is allowed to go on and grow in the school, and at home, then he will become a person who will make others happy.

LET'S ALL MARCH WITH THE MOUSE.......

Let’s all march with the mouse to guarantee a better future to our children, by promoting education around the world.
“Never doubt that a small group thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the thing that ever has.” By Margaret Mead
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