We need teachers. We need teachers who are not merely well-educated and kind and hard-working. We need teachers who are smarter than most of their students. My original post “WHY YOU DON’T WANT TO BECOME A TEACHER” went up on my previous blog while I was actively teaching in a public high school. I reposted it here in February of last year, a month before I retired completely. Nearly two thousand people have looked at it just since, a thousand just this year. Google leads people to it from all over the world. People in Thailand, South Africa, Nepal, Greece, the UK, and France read it while I am asleep. It is my most-read post. Again.