I think I'll always lament the fact that I could not afford to teach. But, imho, it's not all gloom and doom. Imho, 97% of the teachers are teaching because, as the saying goes, "they cannot do". But that 3% is really something.
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]