[Malaise in teachers]

A lot is said about present days sense of disarray in teachers. How real is the fact? How come the debate on education is so passionate? Why such shortsightedness in society's vision of its educational system? There truly is happiness in teaching, and this happiness can evolve out of the worst hardships. Nevertheless that happiness is fragile. It is threatened by situational factors and some may be tempted to adopt identity assertive behaviors. Moreover, achieving that happiness might be costly to the individual: situations area often hard on the narcissism, and frequently provoke deceptions proportionate to the moments of complicity shared with the children and adolescents, who reflect passing illusions of what teachers themselves were.