Last year, in my freshman year of college as a Multimedia major, I was in my bed and scrolling through TikTok. I had come across this particular video that caught my attention. The setting seemed to be a high school classroom. In the video, I heard a woman’s voice shout, "I had already told you! You should know this; I should not have to repeat myself!” I assumed that she was the teacher. A quiet male voice responded, "But I just don’t understand…" She shouted louder, "Use your calculator!” This provoked the student to match her attitude, so he shouted back, "I don’t even know how to do that! I never understood how, and you move too fast!" "Ask your classmates!" "Why can’t you just explain it to me? You’re my teacher!" This conversation bounced back and forth, ending in the student giving up and walking out of the classroom. I felt a personal connection to his frustration, as I had also struggled in my math class. But what irked me was the teacher and how she responded. "Why couldn’t you just help him out? He just asked a question, and as a teacher, you have to answer!" I said this out loud as if she could hear me. I then decided to look through the comments to see if anyone else agreed: "She shouldn’t be a teacher if she’s yelling at her kids like that." "He finally got the courage to ask questions, and this is the response he gets?" "This is why I skipped class in high school…". I had realized that there are so many people who had been discouraged and pushed away from their passion for education. I felt upset. I believe that teachers have one of the most important jobs in the world! If I were the teacher, I would treat my students equitably and pedagogically, unlike the one in the video. I had always rejected the idea of becoming an educator because my mom was an educator who would always come home exhausted from teaching middle school kids. But I couldn’t stand hearing about people losing their love for learning because of experiences like this. I ended up scrolling through TikTok again. It was as if the app itself heard my thoughts because another teacher-related video popped up. A black male teacher seemed to struggle with a bundle of little children at his feet. He didn’t show their faces, but I heard them say, "Mr. Patrick!" in a Japanese accent. "Yes! How can I help you?" "Good morning!" They all said, misunderstanding his question. He laughed and said "Good morning! We’ll work on that." I later found out on his profile that he was a teacher in Japan, teaching young children the English language. "This was the type of teacher I needed in high school. You seem so patient," one comment said. "We need more teachers like you!" another comment said. I knew that those kids had a bright future ahead of them, but then I remembered the previous TikTok. Many people, including myself, didn’t feel that school was providing a safe space for students to freely ask questions and be comfortable in expressing themselves, as all schools should. I don’t want those kids from the second TikTok to lose their bright-eyed curiosity by the time they enter high school as many others did. Educators should spark the hunger for knowledge in every student they teach, no matter how old they are. As a student in the Early Childhood Education department, I know will make this new dream of mine become a reality.