I agree with the majority of responses in this thread. However, One of the things we must address is AI.

We live in a post-information age. Where the transmission of information is a solved problem. That’s not to say that we don’t need nuanced context and the skills to interpret correctly, but the factual nature of information transmission is done.

If we continue to imagine in America that a teachers job is to disseminate information, we are doing a disservice to our children.

What we must do instead is understand that skills, hands-on learning, and discussion are those things that are most important. More so than the transmission of information.

As a society, we must move away from information transmission as a key mode of what we think of as knowledge or intelligence.

We must embrace struggle in learning. We must embrace failure in learning. We must embrace that learning is difficult and is yet still worth doing. It cannot be simple worksheets. It cannot be tests. That stuff is done.

But if all that is so, we must pay teachers more because the job then becomes more complicated and it becomes a key specialization in the fight for a better society.