WorldWatcher
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Kind of hard to say that teachers are more important than cops or cops more important than teachers...
............................. But I bet without teachers we'd need a lot more cops.
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I'd like to know exactly WHY it's so hard to say that cops are more important than teachers. It's certainly possible to say that teachers are more important than virtually everyone else, because people say it ad nauseam. So why is it we can't employ that same calculation to teachers and first responders and come to the conclusion that first responders are more important? Is it just because the whole entire calculation was "teachers = most important of all", no thought needed?
Personally I don't buy into the whole "teachers are more important" OR "cops are more important" because so much of such a conversation would be driven by context. To me it's an apples to oranges comparison.
If your context is society and an educated population able to be productive, engaged, self supporting, citizens able to hold down a meaningful job in this modern technologically driven world and to compete in the world market against other educated countries. Than ya, teachers are more important then cops.
On the other hand...
If someone broke into my house and stole everything of value - then I think I'd call a cop and not a teacher. When you need a cop, you usually need them NOW and at that point, cops are more important.
Context matters. Remove education and in the long term our economy would devolve into a feudalistic society similar to medieval Europe were there was a small group of "haves" able to pass on wealth to their children and the rest existing as basically serfs.
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