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Here’s a little perspective to start the school year.

Pick a corporate chieftain — say, Jeffrey R. Immelt of General Electric. He earns $15.4 million a year. Every single day — including Thanksgiving and Christmas — he makes almost what the average teacher does for a year of taming wild children, staying up nights planning lessons, and, really, helping to shape a generation.

There’s no way I’m going equate the importance of the two jobs.

It’s just something to think about.

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