Because of their own joy of learning and their wish to share. Responding to a call. Teachers influence teachers. People who choose to teach usually relate their respect for one of their own teachers. Teachers beget teachers.
Parents influence their students.
Teachers who report a warm, loving relationship with their mother tend to become elementary teachers. Teachers who report a loving relationship with their mother, but a cool relationship with their fathers, are more likely to become secondary teachers. White Women who choose teaching come from all social-economic groups. Men who choose teaching more often come from lower or middle socio-economic levels Women who enter teaching make higher scores on SAT, etc. Family-oriented, religious, politically conservative.