A Coincidence

Two articles appeared in the Guardian:

A story about teachers that inspired successful people, most of the teachers are pre-1990:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/19/teacher-inspired-me

and a story about teacher, head of the school, who killed herself because the stress in her life, be it school or personal, was too much:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/19/school-head-stress-death-inquiry.

Is this irony?

And, then, there is the American problem. Presidents of a number of colleges have had their salaries increased despite the current economic situation, the cost of tuition and the quality of their graduates: (from the New York Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/education/18college.html?hpw

It makes one wonder....