Who should be paid more: a soldier or a teacher?

[angus]

A teacher is about the most important job we can name, so that's how I voted.

Of course we ought to require them to get graduate degrees and we should do away with tenure (so the incompetent ones can be fired), but yeah I would think that a beginning, incoming public school teacher's salary should probably be about two or three times the salary of a beginning, incoming ensign (or second lieutenant's) salary.  Now, for those who stick with it, I think it should level out.  For example, I do not think that a teacher with 30 years experience should be paid more than a one-star Admiral/General salary.

[angus]

I was born rather late to my dad - when he was 33.

"born ... for"

You were "born to" your mother, "born for" your father.  (You can also apparently say "born of" when referring to your mother, as in "born of the Virgin...")

And not late.  My father was 30 when I was born, and I was 37 when my son was born, the average of 30 and 37 is 33.5, so 33 is pretty close to the average from my familial perspective.  I also have many colleagues who had their first child in their mid-30s.  It's called family planning.  Now that we know what causes pregnancy, we can exercise some control over it.