speaking as an education major, it is incredibly hard to become a teacher right now. If you are speaking college related, then you need a masters to be considered a professor. Anything below that and you have to pass the Praxis to be admitted into UND's program and then for myself I need to pass at least 5 more tests before I can student teach and some more before I can get a license to teach in ND. NCLB has created all sorts of requirements for teachers and if you don't teach up to its standards then your school loses funding and if you have been teaching for 30 years, but didn't take one class in a subject then NCLB states that you aren't qualified to teach that subject that you have been teaching for 30 years. Ok, I am going to stop before I get on a rant about NCLB, so the point of this post was to point out that the requirements of a teacher are not disappointing as you may not know about all of them.