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NMMB said:No, trust me, comparing apples and apples is how you make a valid comparison. Comparing the salary of somebody who has 6 years of university education with somebody who dropped out in grade 9 and with somebody who spent longer in university (a surgical specialist, perhaps) is not a valid comparison just because they all would be included in computing the meaningless national average.
Xert said:This is where I disagree. Higher education was never intended as a means to increase one's salary, but was first pursued for scholarly purposes. It is only relatively recently that education has been associated with a greater salary, boefore which it was generally favored due to providing a more rewarding vocation. Take law school, for example. Here, it requires a minimum of five years in school and one makes an excellent starting salary far above that of a professor who has spent a [extremely rare] bare minimum of eight years in school.
Scotto said:Some may scoff at me, but I firmly believe that a good education is largely self-derived. The best schools have teachers who inspire the love of learning in young people, and this sets them off on a journey of reading and self-discovery. This has to be nurtured by the parents as well. The specifics of what are learned during school hours are in the minority.
rtaylor61 said:...Something is very wrong in the world when a sports professinal will make more in one year than a teacher will make in a lifetime. And look how long THEIR seasons are! Oh, wait, they train all year? So do teachers. At least the good teachers....
rtaylor61 said:...Private schools may have a leg up on this....
If we were looking for a paycheck alone, there are better ways to achieve it.