It seems the best and brightest go into just about any field other than teaching. That’s not a knock on teachers. It’s the truth about the people with brains following the money. Can you blame them? Make education a profitable private enterprise instead of subsistence living and you’ll see the difference in the quality of graduates.

Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country’s private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons….continue reading (via NextDraft)