I have the following sentence to translate.

```

    父母や教師達は、もっとよく子どもの教育について、考えていただきたいものだ。
    
```

So far I have the following.

```

    Parents and teachers "do something" better with children's education and they want the 
    children to think. 
    
```

I am having trouble understanding which `つく` verb is being used.

And I also am not sure who has the desire in the sentence. I think it's the
parents and teachers as they have the subject marker. But then the `いただきたい` is
weird because of the honorifics. Did the subject of the sentence change?
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translation expressions parsing homonyms
について Usage and Honorifics Subject
について is a fixed expression meaning "regarding, concerning, ..." (here "about"
also works) and [derives from 就く or
付く](http://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%AB%E5%B0%B1%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6?dic=daijisen&oid=14047000),
although it is usually written in かな.
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もらいたい・いただきたい's usage is waving these days. It originally takes dative に for
the marker of the agent, but people have started to use nominative as well, as
a result, the situation is being more or less confusing. i.e.
父母や教師達には…考えていただきたいものだ → 父母や教師達は…考えていただきたいものだ
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From a grammatical point of view I think it could be rephrased as:

> (私は、)父母や教師達 _に_ は、もっとよく子どもの教育について、考えていただきたい{ものだ/と思う}。  
>

-私は = I = the subject for 考えていただきたい  
-父母や教師たちに = for parents and teachers = the subject for 考える  
-もっとよく = more seriously <--- modifies 考える.  
-子どもの教育について = about children's education <--- modifies 考える.  
-考えていただきたい* = the humble form of 考えてもらいたい = (I) want (someone) to think. >> I want parents and teachers to think (more seriously about...).   
-ものだ >> [goo辞書#5-㋑](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/219726/m0u/) emphasis 

*いただく is the humble form ([謙譲語]{けんじょうご}) of もらう.
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(This is supplementary to Chocolate's answer.)

If you put everything together then we get:

> I would like parents and teachers to think much more about their childrens'
> education.

Note that:

  * いただきたい makes the sentence from the viewpoint of the writer. 

  * Parents and teachers are the topic (marked by は): that is to say, the focus of the speaker/writers utterance. 

  * ものだ indicates the sincerity or importance the writer places on the statement.
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