04.23.2010
[It’s hard to believe that April is almost over and that 1/3 of the year is practically gone!]
Food for thought: At one point in US History, only men were the educators and teaching positions were one of the highest paid salaries in the nation. Gradually, as the Industrial Revolution provided more technical opportunities and required knowledge of machinery, more men left the teaching profession to jump on the Revolution’s bandwagon.
Teachers were still needed and women wanted to work. So more women took the positions that the men were leaving behind…but it wasn’t really considered “working” if a woman was doing it and so, what was once a highly lucrative field, dropped in economic value and hasn’t recovered since.
Once starting school, a child spends more time at school with teachers than at home with parents. We instill our trust in a different individual each year and instill our trust in an institution to partner with us as parents to raise and shape a little person. Why did we consider education to be more important when men operated it?
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