Issue: A school or college should pay its teachers at the same rate in all disciplines, regardless of differences in salaries for related fields in the world outside of school. For example, entry-level teachers in mathematics and in the arts should receive the same pay, even if outside of school, math specialists earn a much higher salary on average than do specialists in the arts.
Our modern society is under an economic system of marketing, which indicates that it turns to be imprudent and unwise to assess salaries with a completely same standard, regardless of many others.
How much to pay teachers is supposed to depend on many different standards.
Firstly, salaries of teachers should take the work load into account. Teachers in different disciplines definitely burden various work loads. Science teachers are considered to do a great deal of effort to do research and experiment, which refers to hardship and perspiration. At the same time, the results of their work are attached to great importance, which refers to pressure, as a consequence. However, comparatively the work loads of teachers in arts are expected not as heavy as those of teachers in science. Therefore, teachers in science relatively deserve higher salaries as a return to their efforts and patience.
Secondly, salaries for related fields outside of school are supposed to have a connection with salaries of teachers, since they can become a way of assessment on the value of the studies the teachers are engaged in. Salaries outside of school suggest the value of a certain field, including whether it belongs to one of the most significant fields that do contributions to the development of our modern society and whether it is a vanguard of social revolution or development. Fundamentally, university and college studies are for the development of society. A high salary-paid field outside of school indicates a dominant value of this field, as a result of which, teachers making efforts in this fields are promisingly expected to earn a higher salary than those who work on relatively less-contribution-making fields.
Thirdly, salaries of teachers also have a connection with how much efforts the teacher did before he becomes a teacher, which also indicates how hard and significant the field he is studying on is and probably how much effort he will have to pay after he becomes a teacher.
If we pay teachers at the same rates in all disciplines, regardless of differences in salaries for related fields in the world outside of school and not taking other standards into account, it is probable that few teachers will be ready to stay in schools or colleges, and schools and colleges may have to face the loss of its staff. Therefore, a school or college should not be isolated from the outside world, and must conform to the economical rules of the world outside of school.
In conclusion, the amount of salaries is a way of assessment on teachers’ work and the values of different fields. It is not sensible to judge teachers and pay them at the same rate in all disciplines.
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