School of Lateral Thinking EXTENSION

I was looking at some other TOK blogs, and on "School of Lateral thinking" some mentioned that teachers should have higher salaries.

I used to think that teachers should get higher salaries as well. Then I started to think about it more, and I thought, "What would happen if teaching was a higher paying job?" It is plausible that someone who has no business being a teacher would pursue the career, just for monetary gain. But if someone wants to be a teacher, despite the fact that the salary is low, and goes for it, then you know money is not their motivation by any means; rather, they are likely to be motivated by passion for teaching the youth, which they (hopefully) will do to the best of their ability, even if the money isn't good. Do you see the point I am trying to make?

But that doesn't mean that I think that teachers don't deserve to be paid more, certainly not! They should be! Perhaps there is a compromise to be found somewhere? What if teachers started out with a lower base salary, and, based on long or short term evaluation of lessons by someone with experience in teaching, got their salary raised? In short, the passion and skill of the teacher, which would be observed by the examiner, would earn more money? It's just a thought.