First of all, this is a funny joke, so if your intent was to be funny good job. And well if you actually think this statement is true, you are so wrong my friend.

As an education major, I have heard this phrase more than once. Yes, I am studying to be an elementary teacher, no, it is not easy. Just because I will be working with children does not make my major any easier than yours! Have you tried telling a group of 2^nd graders to listen to you and keep their attention? It is not an easy task my friend!

So you are right, that my classes are not all just sitting in a lecture hall looking at a power point. Instead I get to experience hands on lessons, techniques I will use. These classes are fun, and if you think fun is another word for easy, you definition differs from mine.

Calling one major “easier” than another totally demotes that other major. Especially if you never have experienced it for yourself. As an education major, I still respect the work business majors, art majors, and any other major that those students put into their work. If I can respect the talents of other students and majors, why can’t you respect mine?

So my friend who seems like they don’t know enough about my major, it is not easy in fact. I spend many hours working on lesson plans, preparing materials for the students, evaluating my own work along with other students work. Along with teaching students, I am teaching myself to become the educator I want to me.

If you are a person calling my major easy without experiencing it, please don’t. You don’t understand the work I put in, the extra money for supplies for lessons, the hours researching a topic so I can provide the right information to the students. Education is not the easy way out.

To put it in perspective, someday when you have a child and pick them up from school will you tell their teacher that hey, you profession is easy, or hey, thank you for spending 5 days a week with my child providing a great education for them.

So friend, no major is easy. Respect the talents of others. Each major has different elements that all should be recognized and appreciated.