why physicians look more atractive and important than teachers and educatores?i believe that "it is not fair"

Question

where i live, families train and encourage their children to become a physician and in a way they worship this.
if a physician is supposed to rescue 1000 people during his life,on the other hand a teacher is able to educate at least 10 physicians during his life and so she/he rescues 10x1000 people.
don't you think so?

Answer 1

Money. Doctors make some serious cash!

Answer 2

I disagree, because a LOT of teachers do not live up to the job they are supposed to be doing. I can only recall having ONE great teacher in my entire educational lifetime and the rest were mediocre at best. Physicians, on the other hand, have to be precise and get the job done right or else people end up dying...although, there are always a few who are sub-standard....

Answer 3

I agree teachers and educators do not receive enough pay, however, physicians usually have more education in a wider spectrum of knowledge than teachers and educators. A PH.D usually has knowledge in a few areas of expertise. A doctor must have a broader range of knowledge and expertise, or he/she will kill their patients! Having to make decisions that are either causing life or death is far more stressful than giving a passing or failing grade. Not everyone has this gift, and not everyone has the gift of being able to teach others. You have to choose what will make you happy, or you won't be good at either.

Answer 4

Medical school is extremely difficult to get into, physicians study and train for approximately a decade beyond undergraduate, they work more than 80 hours per week during residency and perhaps 60 generally, they pay about $120,000 for medical school, they constantly face the threat of litigation, they carry the weight of life or quality of life on their shoulders, they are on call regularly, their malpractice insurance is very expensive, they must practice medicine consistent with current research.

Education programs are very, very easy to get into, you can be a teacher with an undergraduate degree, teachers carry considerably less debt or none at all depending on their area of instruction, they work regular hours approximately 210 days per year, they are not on call, malpractice insurance is as little as $5 per month, the threat of personal liability is very small, very few teachers are aware of current educational research, their pay is not substandard as compared with other civil servants, such as district attorneys.

Answer 5

Physicians make more money, which may seem more attractive. Some physicians have to go to school for longer than most people, including teachers.

Answer 6

Yes, the field of education is generally under-appreciated by society. Remember that for many years, most teachers were female. Even in the days when it was not acceptable for women to have jobs, women taught, especially in rural areas. My great grandmother was a teacher in one of those one-room schools.

Teaching young children, in particular, is under-appreciated. Perhaps this will change some day.

Answer 7

I do agree with your mathematics.

I think if you achieve the pinnacle of the need pyramid, then no matter what you are, you are attractive to those of the same spirit.

'The base of the pyramid is formed by the physiological needs, including the biological requirements for food, water, air, and sleep.

Once the physiological needs are met, an individual can concentrate on the second level, the need for safety and security. Included here are the needs for structure, order, security, and predictability.

The third level is the need for love and belonging. Included here are the needs for friends and companions, a supportive family, identification with a group, and an intimate relationship.

The fourth level is the esteem needs. This group of needs requires both recognition from other people that results in feelings of prestige, acceptance, and status, and self-esteem that results in feelings of adequacy, competence, and confidence. Lack of satisfaction of the esteem needs results in discouragement and feelings of inferiority.

Finally, self-actualization sits at the apex of the original pyramid.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

'Self-actualization
Self-actualization — a concept Maslow attributed to Kurt Goldstein, one of his mentors — is the instinctual need of humans to make the most of their abilities and to strive to be the best they can.

In Maslow's scheme, the final stage of psychological development comes when the individual feels assured that his physiological, security, affiliation and affection, self-respect, and recognition needs have been satisfied. As these become dormant, he becomes filled with a desire to realize all of his potential for being an effective, creative, mature human being. "What a man can be, he must be"[1], is the way Maslow expresses it.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization#Self-actualization

And whatever a woman can, she must be.

Answer 8

I think physicians look more attractive than teachers because they maybe dealing with an extent of life and death situations. An error they make may put their clients to funeral so they need their clients' trust and confidence thus they need to look more attractive than teacher. When Teachers on the other hand made errors, they erase the blackboard.

I think it's fair, teachers don't need to look so attractive figuratively to teach but this depends on the quality of teaching they impart.

Answer 9

All I am going to say is this...yes, physicians may save lives...but who taught them how to save lives? TEACHERS.

Answer 10

most physicians I know, do little but prescribe pills, most teachers do little but spout conventional wisdom
both professions are doing thier part admirably to set society up for complete dictatorship by know nothings and we are paying handsomely for this because we are too f*****g lazy for the most part to think for ourselves ...