Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Answer: Hell No! Question: Are Teachers Underpaid? - The Teacher Salary Myth


The Teacher Salary Myth -- Are Teachers Underpaid? - Forbes
Warren Meyer, 12-22-11

It is one of the most commonly held bits of conventional wisdom in this country: that teachers are grossly underpaid, and further that many of the bad outcomes in public education are directly attributable to low teacher compensation. One hears this everywhere, from cocktail parties to TV talk shows — but is it true?

I first wrote on teacher compensation back in May of 2005. That article, still lurking out there on the search engines, continues to generate a good portion of my mail. Given that so much of that feedback has been ad hominem speculation on my motivations, I suppose I should be explicit about these this time around.

I have zero problem with anyone and everyone getting the highest wages they can. Power to you. I am not even one of the many who criticize the pay of top athletes or performers, mainly because I always have a choice: If I believe they are charging more than they are worth, for a game or a concert or a movie, I simply don’t go.

But it is for this very reason that I am suddenly scrupulous about public teacher’s pay — because I don’t have that choice. The government enforces a school monopoly in which I have to pay for the public schools, whether I have kids in their schools or not. I am thus required by law to pay public school salaries. ...

... -read on at link-

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