Comments on: New Teachers are Cheap: The Ultimate Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your First-Years http://conversationed.com/2014/08/18/new-teachers-are-cheap-the-ultimate-guide-to-getting-the-most-out-of-your-first-years/ Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Jim Oase http://conversationed.com/2014/08/18/new-teachers-are-cheap-the-ultimate-guide-to-getting-the-most-out-of-your-first-years/#comment-632 Sat, 23 Aug 2014 05:59:16 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3954#comment-632 “You can get about twenty new teachers for the price of an old one like me. That’s a bargain.” ~ Dawn Casey Rowe

What creates value? Effective labor creates value. We cannot print or digitize labor, therefore value can only be created with labor.

Education involves using highly specialized labor who’s task it is to develop and train the innate skills unique to each of their students. Humans, unlike any other species, are guided by an invisible hand towards individual specialization such that the synergy results in mutually improving man’s standard of living while providing a living for the individual.

Day in day out each of us endeavors to purchase the best quality product for the best price. Today we are talking about “experienced” teachers being replaced by “inexperienced” teachers. How do experienced teachers show their capabilities? Like all business people with their products. Quality products at a good price created their own demand. School systems for decades have been producing the graduates that are the leaders of their communities, these communities are going bankrupt or are going extinct. Graduating at the top of a failing education system is not the solution for improving the level of public education.

There is a significant difference between 15 years on the job and 15 years of bringing out innate talents and skills of individuals. Communities prosper in proportion to the useful education of their individuals.

Teachers and communities are the victim of compulsory education. Teachers cannot use their training for the benefit of the community because teachers are controlled, as to what they can develop in each individual student, by “experts” from outside the community. Students cannot shop around for an education suite for their talents and desires.

“This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature, which has in view no such extensive utility ; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.” ~ Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776

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By: donna http://conversationed.com/2014/08/18/new-teachers-are-cheap-the-ultimate-guide-to-getting-the-most-out-of-your-first-years/#comment-620 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:28:12 +0000 http://conversationed.com/?p=3954#comment-620 My 4 kids struggle with multiple disabilities.I opted my kids out of testing.I have to fight every year because the staff and teachers are not considerate for my kids feelings.

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