But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.
Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.
The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.
In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
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