When you’re an education major, it seems like everyone has to comment on your choice of major. These comments can very from pretty harmless, such as, “It’s so fun that you get to play with blocks all day,” to disheartening comments like, “Good luck because you’ll never find a job.” Education majors learn to laugh these comments off because we know that our passion is more important than their perception. Here are the five things education majors are simply sick of hearing,

1. “Those who can do, and those who can’t teach.”

Yeah, yeah, like we’ve never heard that before. Trust us, it takes a special kind of person to become a teacher. You have to have a crazy amount of tolerance, an unwavering work ethic, spectacular organization skills, and various other essential qualities that some people just don’t have. Therefore, those who can teach are pretty phenomenal, and can and will do anything they need to do to educate the future generations.

2. “So you’re going to be a glorified babysitter…”

Sure, sometimes teaching can feel like babysitting, especially when you’re working with kindergarteners and attempting to have them all sit quietly on the carpet, but that’s definitely not all that education majors do. We wish teaching was as easy as babysitting is, and that we would get paid just to play. We know it’s our responsibility to set our students up for success, and that takes much more effort than babysitting does.

3. “Well good luck with that salary.”

Weirdly enough, we didn’t pick this major for the salary. Education majors chose their major because of how much of a difference they want to make. We want to change the lives of our students, and as cheesy as it is, that alone is priceless. We want to spend our lives doing something that we love, even if we don’t get to drive a Mercedes to work.

4. “What an easy major!”

It’s true, sometimes we get to color in our classes or have to make silly crafts, but we also have to create unit plans and lesson plans out of thin air. We additionally have to take a full course load while doing our full-day internship in a classroom. We’re also double majoring because we have to take classes that are specific to our specialty and to our major in education.

5. “You’re so lucky that you get summers off!”

We wish that we had summers off! In the future, the majority of us will be working a second and possibly third job during the summertime. On top of that, we’ll be busy planning for our new class/classes and attending meetings that help us become better teachers. Some of us may also be teaching summer school, or spending our time tutoring students so they don't fall behind when school starts again. Not to mention, some of us will probably be busy taking classes so that we can receive our Master's.

6. "Why would you want to work with kids every day?"

This question usually varies for each education major, depending on the grade levels they want to teach. Some people ask why we want to work with "sticky and annoying kids" all day or how we'll survive teaching "bratty and dramatic" middle and high schoolers. Everyone has their own reason as to why they look forward to teaching those grade levels. I personally find this mind boggling because working with little kids is seriously so incredibly fun! It's awesome to see them develop as students and see the smiles on their faces when they finally understand a concept they've been struggling with. Elementary students also find such enjoyment from the little things in life, and that joy is infectious. I've met my fair share of adult coworkers who come to work miserable every day and I'll take working with kids over those adults anytime, even if I do have to spend some of my time tying shoes.

7. "I could never be a teacher! I would hate it."

Some of us have been dreaming of becoming teachers since we were in elementary school. We loved school, and we'll always love learning and helping others learn.Teaching isn't for everyone, just as other majors such as business or engineering just wouldn't be a good fit for most of us.We understand that you could never see yourself spending a whole school day with students and then going home to grade papers or prep for the next day, but we couldn't see ourselves running your business and chatting with your customers or clients either. We're also pretty glad that you would hate it, because that means that there are more jobs out there for us!