hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Brightest graudates to lift Victorian Schools?
"TOP university students will be headhunted by the State Government and offered financial incentives to work in Victoria's most challenging schools under a radical plan to tackle underperformance.University graduates from all courses - not just teaching degrees - will be aggressively recruited, given weeks of intensive training and ongoing mentoring to cope with life in some of the toughest classrooms.
But the plan is likely to prove contentious, with teachers already raising concerns that some university graduates, no matter how successful they are in their fields, may not be cut out for the rigours of teaching in struggling schools."
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Hypothetically speaking this is great. Encourage the 'best' in their fields to use their skills for the widest social benefit.
Practically speaking, however, it sounds like it might run into trouble. Attaining high marks in a university degree does not necessarily mean one will be able to manage children from the Jungles that are Victoria's 'most challenging' schools. We live in a society in which the individualism of children clearly dwarfs that of the past and we have taken away the ability of teachers to be more assertive in maintaining order in the classroom, leading to the many of the problems this plan seeks to solve.
The public teaching profession as a whole needs to be better paid, by us, the taxpayers, so that worsening classroom conditions can be balanced by more financial incentives, encouraging a higher quality of personnel to join and stay in a profession that is growing more challenging and thus less attractive to talented people choosing a career.
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