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I am an elementary education major and most people usually make a crack at my major. Usually it's the biology majors, business majors, and nursing majors that like to belittle my future career.They like to think that it's the easiest major ever known to man, that we sit in class and try to color in the lines of our Winnie the Pooh coloring books. I've got to admit that it's gotten to be really annoying. Sure we do fun activities once in a while, but that doesn't mean that we aren't learning content that will help us become better professionals one day. Just because we're not sent home with a bajillion trillion accounting problems for homework doesn't mean that we are not learning or working hard. I guess what i want to dedicate this blog to, is to teachers (or future teachers) everywhere who have ever felt unappreciated in your line of work. It takes a special person to be a doctor, a nurse, a psychologist, JUST like it takes a special person to be a teacher. God has a plan for each of one of us, and i'm SO happy to know that we are not all cookie-cutters of each other. I will be a teacher and hope to make a difference in the lives of the children I will be teaching.

I thought I would share some of my favorite encouraging quotes about teachers.

"If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job. ~Donald D. Quinn

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. ~Jacques Barzun"

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown


He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~Victor Hugo