Society's View on Teaching Professionals

“Those who can not do, teach,” Now this may be a line from a Woody Allen movie, but one must truly believe that the American society has taken this idiom and ran with it, if you will. In this day in age, people believe that teachers are “washed up” or “took the easy route,” and that no one ever decided when they were a child they wanted to grow up and become a teacher. But instead that teachers were people who had given up on their dreams and decided to do teach instead. When looking at the views of society on teachers, people never respect their choice of career.

In the article “Why Do They Teach? - And Why Do They Leave?” Carol Curtis asks people from who are potential teachers all the way to teachers who have left their profession. This article is a survey in which asks potential teachers, why they would want to teach for the rest of the rest of their lives? And discusses the major points in which teachers leave this profession and the reason they felt un-supported in the school environment. When asking college aged students they asked, why do you want to teach? In response seventy one percent of these students said “for self-fulfillment” and a continued seventy percent said “they had a mentor or teacher who influenced them in a positive way” (780). So this shows that these teachers are going into this profession knowing for a fact this is what they want to do, and obviously are not giving up on their dreams. Teaching is much more to these potential teachers; it is being able to change a life. Not by teaching them what happened in the Civil War but by being a male/female influence when they do not have that at home, or just being the teacher they spend talking to twenty minutes after class about the small th...

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...aid, “That no one ever speaks back to the teacher, whatever he or she says is always right.” This truly shows when the parent is telling their child to listen to what the educator says always; mass respect is the product and thus superior education.

People’s views in America may be that teachers do not deserve the respect they think they do, but after looking at the evidence of the motivation behind teachers, they soon will. Obviously this essay was to influence the reader to care more for the educator and one can only hope soon it will, but as said before educators must also change if they want change to happen. Teachers will most likely soon once again be people of respect, since education is becoming so key to obtaining a career. Teachers are one of the most noble men and women in society and when people recognize this again, school systems will flourish.