Yeah, the “what if there are not enough” problem. I keep saying this for years about teachers.
We want everyone to be educated. (I agree.) Ideally, we would like almost everyone to have an university education. And we want to have small classrooms, and individual attention to students. Also, teachers should understand their subject perfectly, and should be great with kids (ideally work with all kinds of disabilities).
And I am like: yeah, but that would require X% of population (depending on your ideal classroom size) to become teachers. Do X% people even have the desire traits? What if they don’t? (Also, not everyone who could be a teacher, should be a teacher—we also need people who are great at something to actually do it, as a job.)
But instead of thinking about the constraints of the problem, the answer is that we absolutely must to have everything. And the reality is that some schools have great teachers, many schools do not, and the parents who are aware of this compete for getting their kids into the right schools, while everyone loudly insists that no such thing is happening, because all schools are great… or at least, they should be.
Yeah, the “what if there are not enough” problem. I keep saying this for years about teachers.
We want everyone to be educated. (I agree.) Ideally, we would like almost everyone to have an university education. And we want to have small classrooms, and individual attention to students. Also, teachers should understand their subject perfectly, and should be great with kids (ideally work with all kinds of disabilities).
And I am like: yeah, but that would require X% of population (depending on your ideal classroom size) to become teachers. Do X% people even have the desire traits? What if they don’t? (Also, not everyone who could be a teacher, should be a teacher—we also need people who are great at something to actually do it, as a job.)
But instead of thinking about the constraints of the problem, the answer is that we absolutely must to have everything. And the reality is that some schools have great teachers, many schools do not, and the parents who are aware of this compete for getting their kids into the right schools, while everyone loudly insists that no such thing is happening, because all schools are great… or at least, they should be.