Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

When you do that, you can give it your best. I'm proud of my profession and how teaching makes a difference in the lives you touch. I love what I do and I'm grateful for the opportunity to do it.

When they do understand, it is eye-opening because teaching is generally understood to be an underpaid profession.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

It's really unfair to our young teachers and discouraging them from entering the profession, particularly in the most challenging teaching environments where they're most needed.