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Subject: Re: teacher's don't need more pay - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 11:16:41 EST
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ucbesvax!turner    Nov 19 01:07:00 1983

Re: "teacher's don't need more pay"

The comparison to people studying for the ministry is stretched, I think.
I am an agnostic (and an atheist on my bad days), but I have some respect
for the idea of a religious vocation as a call from God.

However devoted a teacher might be (and I've met some saints in my time,
believe me) one cannot compare a teacher to people who want to do what
they perceive as the will of some God, however personally onerous it
might be.  Teachers are only human, and if their work is their main
source of dignity, they will move on--or retreat from the absurdity of
present responsibilities--when humiliated past a certain point.
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Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)