Roommate Convo and Defensive Education Major!

Conversation that just took place between Genny and I:
Genny: UGHH!!! I don't understand this stupid chemistry!!
Kylie: Oh, it can't be that bad, you love chemistry!
G: Well it is. Do YOU know what the atomic radious something or another is?
K: Yep! The answers A.
G: It's not multiple choice...
K: Then the answer is infinity!
G: I hate you.
K: Pshhh... you could always be an education major and just deal with kids :)
G: I'd MUCH rather do chemistry!!!

Bahaha, Genny and I are SO similar, yet so entirely different at the same time. She can't stand kids. I absolutely adore kids. It's really funny when we get on topics that involve kids because we are both VERY passionate about how we feel about it!

But in reality, I'm actually frustrated with people here at A&M considering education majors dumb. Really fed up with it to be honest. A&M is FULL of engineering, biomedical science, business, and math majors. Yes, those are hard majors, but THEY choose to be in that! They want to spend their life doing math stuff and other stuff that those majors do for a living. But education majors AREN'T dumb! And we don't have it that much easier than everybody else. No, we may not have 23048 math problems per week, but we write just about that many lesson plans! We may not have a test every other week, but we have massive projects and presentations! We didn't chose education to major in because we weren't smart enough to do anything else. We chose to be teachers because we want to make a difference!!

There is a quote I found on Pinterest the other day that sums this up pretty well... "I teach to enable, enliven, and encourage. NOT because I can't do anything else!"