America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.