That teaching , done right , requires all of a teacher 's emotional and intellectual resources ; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs ; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers .
Teachers should be paid better because their job is emotionally and intellectually demanding .