Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 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.
Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel.
Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
Teachers need to be paid like professionals.
Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
Education is neither eastern nor western.