Liberal Forum

I touched upon this in one of my posts in a response to someone.  I essentially questioned why any adult would want to spend their time helping other people's mostly animal-like children learn the same old boring stuff over and over again.

One one hand, parents need people who are willing to be factory-worker style teachers to educate their children.  On the other hand, people who spend 4 years in college studying math, biology, physics, english, etc. and then get a teaching certificate on top of that have "high hopes" of being anything other than a factory worker.  There's a huge disconnect here.  In essence, these teachers-in-training have no clue what is actually expected of them in the work place.  Or, do they?

What motivates people to choose a career in teaching?

• Money - this is a key motivator for many college educated adults, but clearly not for teachers.
• Benefits - Teachers do receive fairly good benefits, but 18-20 somethings think about benefits as likely as they are to read a 1000 page book on insurance.
• Naivety - Basically stupidity.  Thinking that teaching is some glorious job, when it's actually a very boring, tedious, grind of a job.
• Easy job with lots of time off.   Essentially laziness.  Yes, I will say this is a motivator.
• Power over others.  Umm, maybe.  Perhaps that feeling of "I'm the Boss of you" motivates some to become teachers.
• Liberal Indoctrination.  Yes, I think a sizeable number of teachers want to "mold" children into embracing 0-population, marxist and socialist beliefs.
• Sex - I'm going to say "yes".  I think there is a portion of teachers who find children sexually attractive. 

Am I missing anything here?  Please let me know if I am.  So, the only noble reasons for people to pursue teaching as a career is "Naivety" and "Laziness".  Keep that in mind as you hug and kiss the little ones before they go off to school for a fun-filled 8 hours with people who fall into one of the above categories.