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yurbud

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10. I sincerely think that most of the greatest innovators in business...

Reply to bemildred (Reply #9)

Mon Jul 23, 2012, 12:31 PM

Jul 2012

are motivated by love of their work, or an itch to make the better mousetrap and the financial rewards are a consequence or at best a secondary goal.

That is certainly true of 99% of teachers. If someone goes into that field for the money, they will be sorely disappointed in the effort to reward ratio.

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Ironically, the one guy in the corporate world who understood how yurbud Jul 2012 #1

When I was teaching on the college level, one of the best ways to work with problematic students Lydia Leftcoast Jul 2012 #7

That's more or less how college works (for now) and how yurbud Jul 2012 #8

And this "No Contest: The Case Against Competition" SharonAnn Jul 2012 #14

My wife and a friend who's a counselor swear by his stuff. yurbud Jul 2012 #16

good read indeed lunasun Jul 2012 #2

that's depressing to hear it's coming to health care yurbud Jul 2012 #5

Ha! It's already come to health care! Lydia Leftcoast Jul 2012 #6

meeting was hitting lowly independent doctors now who participate in networks lunasun Jul 2012 #12

It's a very stupid policy if you really want good teachers. bemildred Jul 2012 #3

He was clever in the way John D. Rockefeller was... yurbud Jul 2012 #4

Really intelligent people have better things to do than collect money and power. bemildred Jul 2012 #9

I sincerely think that most of the greatest innovators in business... yurbud Jul 2012 #10

Yes. bemildred Jul 2012 #11

I did it for the money JNelson6563 Jul 2012 #13

definitely. yurbud Jul 2012 #15