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Respect of teachers even though they only serve kids

I realized a few days ago that have spent about a quarter of my expected life spending much more money than I made. I was thinking of this in the context of whether what I'm currently doing is at all useful.

People respect the faculty and staff of the various schools that I've attended even though they basically serve nobody but students. Even worse, they don't "serve" students so much as they indoctrinate/control/deal with students. If we didn't unnaturally elevate their actions to the status of a respected job that pays decently, we wouldn't have many teachers.

It reminds you that school might actually be totally useless (at best).

But if we started thinking like this, lots of people would be unemployed. I suppose that's part of the reason things like this are slow to change.
06-21-2009 09:45 PM
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Service to others should be respected. I don't have an issue with that-doctors, janitors, all of these should be respected when they serve others. The problem is that the teachers aren't actually serving the students most of the time.
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06-22-2009 02:27 AM
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Puchiko Wrote:Service to others should be respected. I don't have an issue with that-doctors, janitors, all of these should be respected when they serve others. The problem is that the teachers aren't actually serving the students most of the time.
I don't mean to say that they're not doing anything; it's just comforting to think that they're only being paid to do services for other people and don't fundamentally need to extract more resources from the Earth, which demonstrates that you don't really need that much to survive.

My thoughts on the original post are really jumbled and messy. I don't think they actually made sense to anybody.
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what I got from it was that teachers are respected because they serve the students, which makes it kind of pointless since they are serving those who don't wish to be served.
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thought criminal Wrote:what I got from it was that teachers are respected because they control the students, which makes it kind of pointless since they are controlling those who don't wish to be controlled.


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