> Giving more money would bring in better teachers, but I don’t know that they’d be able to overcome the other obstacles

Start with the easiest thing to control? Of giving more money and see what it does?

We seem to believe in every other industry that to get the best talent pay a high salary salary, but for some reason we expect teachers to do it out of compassion for the children while they struggle to pay bills. It's absurd.

Probably one of the single most important responsibilities of a society is to prepare the next generation, and it pays enormous return. But because we can't measure it with quarterly profits we just ignore it.

The rate of return on providing society with as good education is insane.