Our education system is one of our nation's most precious resources. It is failing to recruit and retain the brightest people in the teaching profession. This article suggests two major problems that need correcting before other problems can be solved.

The author discusses factors considered on how to become a teacher educator. Most colleges and universities consider the academic alliance of teaching, scholarship, and service to be an interdependent trilogy. Some institutions place more weight on one area than another. In many universities, teaching is the area of emphasis although the other two…