TIME's new cover: This is what it's like to be a teacher in America

[Amimnoch]

72. Imo, this is the single biggest problem in the country.

Over the years, in many threads, letters to my worthless congress critters, and the last 4 presidents.. If we’d just fix our education system, we’d fix SO many problems.

Get the salaries and compensation packages for teachers changed from “oh you’re a teacher.. bless your heart.” To “Wow, a teacher?!?!” Make it a desirable job where those in the profession are enabled to be great!

Change the curriculums to be more in line with the modern age. For example, in math move away from manual, on paper formula, and teach our kids how to input powerful formula into spreadsheets. Make it more practical to targeted professions such as math for engineers, math for science.

Most importantly, get critical thinking and critical analysis course into our high school curriculums! Teach our children how to look past the surface message, question the source of the information, question what influences are behind those sources. Research for truth and facts. If we armed our children with critical thinking skills so many of the modern problems with politics would fix themselves:

A population armed with the ability to think critically will make the shadow money in politics worthless. It would take the power away from it, because all of those ads and information would be getting examined by critical thought.

When you drill it down, corporations don’t have a vote.. at all. The only power they have is the money they can throw into PAC’s and lobbyists to sway voters and politicians into voting the way they want. When the targets of that money (us) are examining those ads, identifying what’s driving those ads, we’re less likely to be swayed by said ads. If you can’t take away the money itself, you can take away the power that money has.

The same with foreign influences. They don’t get a vote. But if our children and population are armed with the ability to process and question information received critically, the power of propaganda goes away, or at the very least highly reduced.