America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
- Evan Esar

Sad, isn't it? I'm not even sure it's true anymore. I think some athletes earn more per week than the average professor makes in a year. And professors are the elite of the teaching world. People who teach our children are horribly underpaid and under-respected. Teaching is largely thought of as the profession of people who "can't get real jobs", because there's not much incentive for people to become teachers.