{"id":9364,"date":"2006-06-10T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2006\/06\/10\/love-me-when-i-least-deserve-it-because-thats-when-i-most-need-it\/"},"modified":"2022-04-10T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:25:17","slug":"teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2006\/06\/10\/teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the best students deserve the best teachers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some questions about human nature, possibly economics, and moral values.<\/p>\n<p>Do the best students deserve the best teachers? Or would it make more sense to give them to the worst students, who need them more so that they can catch up?<\/p>\n<p>Things to think about-<\/p>\n<p>Is a good teacher one who is well-versed in his field, or is he one who is most able to connect with his students? Which would you rather be taught by? Who should be the more highly paid? Who is a better asset to students, school, society?<\/p>\n<p>Is a good student one who excels easily, or one who tries his best? Again, which is the better asset to the school and to society? <\/p>\n<p>Which student is worse (or a larger liability to himself and society)- the weak one who tries hard, or the intelligent one who simply doesn&#8217;t? (I plea guilty to being the second, at the risk of being labelled egoistical for labelling myself intelligent)<\/p>\n<p>Does it make more economical sense to give the best and most experienced teachers to the best students? The higher our high-flyers fly, surely the higher our nation will be able to rise?<\/p>\n<p>What is better for society- to have more high-achievers or less low-achievers? Which is the more humane thing to work towards?<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t given this too much thought yet, I&#8217;d like to see your ideas and responses before I think further. =)<\/p>\n<p>-visa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some questions about human nature, possibly economics, and moral values. Do the best students deserve the best teachers? Or would it make more sense to give them to the worst students, who need them more so that they can catch up? Things to think about- Is a good teacher one&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-teachers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13357,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions\/13357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}