In a survey published in 2000, more than 80 percent of teachers indicated that a desire to work with children drove their decision to become teachers and 65 percent stressed the importance of teaching as a factor.
In the United States, someone has to be at least 35 years old in order to become President of the United States.
Age is obviously no guarantee of good judgment for a politician â see New Yorkers Anthony Weiner (48) and Eliott Spitzer (54). But the idea that age brings wisdom and maturity is what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they spelled out in the Constitution that a president of the USA must be at least 35.