When I was a child, noted that some colleagues were going well and others not so much in their school grades. In pure child, I understood why: it is that some are adapted to the system and not others. I was sure that those who took low notes were not stupid, after all I lived with them beyond the walls of the Educational Establishment. But the big question that remains is: how a child could see it and the adults who gave lessons and ran the institution does not? Why there was a sincere concern to trigger an action to make school interesting for everyone, so all went well?

When I say go and I do not mean just good grades, but especially knowledge applied to generate life. Yes, because everything we learn in school, less to live. Nobody teaches us to live on. We learn by leaps and bounds, with a succession of errors that look smarter not to repeat. But how to change it?

I learned from this brief speech by Sir Ken Robinson on TED Talks a few days ago. Highly intelligent person and a very British humor that I like (because mood denotes little development of synapses), he points to the cultivation of creativity as an output. And I found it very interesting when he says that all children are born artists, but it disappears much later adulthood.

What a world we want to leave if we do not take education seriously?

Which leaders will form when a schoolteacher earns so little? I do not know if you ever asked this question, but it should.

UNESCO published a comparative study with the salaries of elementary school teachers from 38 countries. We were in third place, losing to Peru and Indonesia, the worst since the salary. The country-destination for surfers scored U $ 1,624 per year, while the Incas U $ 4,752. The country's football almost lost to the Peruvians, with U.S. $ 4,818,. Well away from the average of developed countries, U.S. $ 33,209 per year.

Make a comparison. A Judge of the Supreme Court (which has the title of Minister in our country) receives U.S. $ 148 000 per year. Who is head of account noted that a person trained to prosecute crimes, a reactive function, earns almost 30 times more than one person trained to educate, a preventive function. We have a system that invests less in the professional that could decrease the work of the professional who is there to resolve things that have happened. We pay more to change the past than to look ahead.

To be a teacher, you need to call. In a system like ours, teachers end up migrating to other native functions to a dignified life. With a measly salary, move away from the goal of their lives. Thus, the teaching profession tends to attract professionals who either did not get a better position in the market, or did not have jurisdiction to do so.

Far from being simplistic and deterministic, it could be a developed country if the situation were different. The low salary of teachers indicates the total lack of priority in investing in education since the time we try to stop being a colony. It is a paradox invest in punishment, the court, when we have a country so ignorant. We encourage crime by not prioritizing education.

We pay judges well and safe to build temples worthy exercise of their functions as teachers dwindle eating porridge vandalized schools with students who threaten them with impunity.

Our country needs to implement the policy of the judges in schools, so they are as safe as imposing and forums. That teachers have the status of Ministers. We can finally assume the role of trainers of the future leaders of Brazil manly. If not, there is a sense of mission.

See here an example of a school that I find interesting, not only for their professional value, but the proposal of its educational process.