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You don't get retirement benefits until you retire, you can't spend that money unil you do, and you need it then anyway. The pension helps but it doesn't make the position attractive as better wages now. Being poor now so you can retire poor while doing some very difficult work is not attractive. Further any pension as a weight in future prospects is surely weighted against them leaving the field early.
What grand display are you talking about?
Places with education systems have better outcomes for their population than places that don't, we need it so our children have a good life.
Yes, that's the nature of extending credit to a debtor – you don't get your money back until the terms expect payment. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
One could always borrow to find immediate liquidity using the outstanding debt to be collected as collateral.
Teachers, being the owners of the fund, could also come to an agreement to change its structure. The fund doesn't have to create a debt to active teachers, that's just what its owners decided to do at one point in time.
The one where someone went on some weird emotional tirade because of some meaningless words. An educated populace is able to comprehend information in a message without getting wrapped up in their feelings about it.
According to the OCED/Statscan, Ontario is the most educated province in the most educated nation. In other words, it is considered the most educated place in the world. By which metrics does Ontario display the world's best outcomes for its population?