Matt Damon praised for response to interview question about teachers’ salaries

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Matt Damon has been praised for his response to a reporter’s question about teachers’ salaries in a newly resurfaced video.The actor, who most recently featured in Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer, attended a Save Our Schools march in Washington DC in August 2011, with interview footage from the event revealing Damon’s commitment to the cause.In a recorded interview with Reason.TV – during which Damon stood alongside his mother, who is a teacher – the actor was asked a question that suggested teachers would work harder if they had less job security, similar to the unreliable nature of acting jobs.“You think job insecurity is what makes me work hard?” Damon replied. “I want to be an actor, it’s not an incentive.”Thought I’d share this:A clip from an interview with actor Matt Damon from around 10yrs ago.His mom’s a teacher.

He avidly defends us. pic.twitter.com/lquymaVgsK— Teacher's Manual (@UnofficialOA) December 13, 2020He went on: “That’s the thing, see, you take this MBA-style thinking, right?

It’s the problem with ed policy right now.“There’s this intrinsically paternalistic view of problems that are much more complex than that.

It’s like saying a teacher is going to get lazy when they have tenure, a teacher wants to teach.”He added: “I mean, why else would you take a shitty salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really love to do it?”The cameraman then chimed in to claim that “10 per cent of teachers are bad”, to which Damon’s mother asked: “Where did you get that number?”The operator replied: “I don’t know, 10 per cent of people in any profession maybe should think of something else.”“Well, OK,” Damon responded. “But maybe you’re a shitty cameraman, I don’t know.”Viewers have since been heaping.