Re: "A river of entitlement," Jan. 22 Colorado Voices column.
Mark Moe's commentary is an excellent description of our culture that "is no friend of education or intellectualism." He concludes if we want to improve the situation, we need to pay our teachers better. I agree, but I think he missed other important factors. Our culture not only devalues education, it also devalues government service and social activism. Efforts to privatize many facets of government and basic education are examples of this. The costs of higher education, like health care costs, are becoming out of reach for many people.
As the wealthiest nation in the world and the "land of liberty," we should measure social progress on what we do to improve the lives of all people and continue to ask ourselves, as Moe puts it, how long we can wait until we "buck the flow of a beguiling but ultimately destructive popular culture."
Timothy D. Allport, Littleton